Katherine Howe was born in Houston, Texas, and holds degrees in art history and philosophy from Columbia and in American and New England Studies from Boston University. She is the author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, and which has been translated into twenty-five languages. In 2012 she hosted the Expedition Week special “Salem: Unmasking the Devil” on the National Geographic Channel. Her new novel, a historical thriller set in Boston in the aftermath of the Titanic sinking entitled The House of Velvet and Glass, was released in the US in April 2012, and was a USA Today and New York Times e-book bestseller. She lives in upstate New York with her family, where she teaches historical fiction at Cornell while working on her next novel. In her free time she tries to preserve her garden from the groundhog under the porch stairs, and enjoys roaming the woods, reading books, and sailing.
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
[In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us.]
There are a few tropes that will convince me to pick up almost any book that promises to contain them. I’ll call one of them “Searching for a Long-Lost Book,” and another “All My Forebears Were Secretly Witches.”
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Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
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