Joseph Olshan

Joseph Olshan is an award-winning American novelist.

His first novel, "Clara's Heart", won the Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers' Competition and went on to be made into a feature film starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1988. He is the author of eight novels. In addition to his novels, he has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The Times, The Observer, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, "the New York Observer, Harpers Bazaar, People magazine" and Entertainment Weekly. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a regular contributor of book reviews for the Wall Street Journal. For most of the 1990s he was a professor of Creative Writing at New York University where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses.

Olshan's other novels include the gay-themed "Nightswimmer" and "Vanitas", as well as "The Waterline", "A Warmer Season", "The Sound of Heaven" and "In Clara's Hands", a sequel to his acclaimed first novel, "Clara's Heart".

Joseph Olshan is published in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press and Berkley Books and in United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing and by Arcadia Books. His work has been translated into sixteen languages. His eighth novel, The Conversion, was published in April 2008.

Novels

*"Clara's Heart"
*"A Warmer Season"
*"The Waterline"
*"The Sound of Heaven"
*"Nightswimmer"
*"Vanitas"
*"In Clara's Hands"
*"The Conversion"

External links

* [http://www.josepholshan.com Joseph Olshan official website]