Chris Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of 15 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls. Read full biography of Chris Bohjalian →
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing -... →
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive... →
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted... →
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million... →
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional... →
I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.
I need complete silence when I write.
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
Chris Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of 15 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.