1. Chris A Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of over twenty novels, including Midwives, The Sandcastle Girls, The Guest Room, and The Flight Attendant.
16 Facts About Chris Bohjalian
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Chris Bohjalian moved with his wife Victoria Blewer to Lincoln, Vermont in 1988.
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In Lincoln, Chris Bohjalian began writing weekly columns for the local newspaper and magazine about living in the small town, which had a population of about 975 residents.
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Chris Bohjalian has written for Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, The New York Times, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.
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Chris Bohjalian followed Midwives with the 1998 novel The Law of Similars, about a widower attorney suffering from nameless anxieties who starts dating a woman who practices alternative medicine.
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The novel was inspired by Chris Bohjalian's visit to a homeopath in an attempt to cure frequent colds he was catching from his daughter's day care center.
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In 2008, Chris Bohjalian released Skeletons at the Feast, a love story set in the last six months of World War II in Poland and Germany.
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Chris Bohjalian was fascinated by Henatsch's account of her family's trek west ahead of the Soviet Army, but he was not inspired to write a novel from it until 2006 when he read Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, Max Hastings' history of the final years of World War II.
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Chris Bohjalian was struck by how often Henatsch's story mirrored real-life experiences and the common "moments of idiosyncratic human connection" found in both.
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Chris Bohjalian's 2009 novel Secrets of Eden was a critical success, receiving starred reviews from three of the four trade journals.
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Since then Chris Bohjalian has written other New York Times bestsellers, including The Light in the Ruins ; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands ; The Guest Room ; The Sleepwalker ; and The Flight Attendant.
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Chris Bohjalian's books have been chosen as Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, the St Louis Post-Dispatch, Hartford Courant, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage, and Salon.
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On September 1,2017, Chris Bohjalian delivered a Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture at the Library of Congress.
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Chris Bohjalian uses characteristics from his life in his writings; in particular, many of his novels take place in Vermont towns, some fictional.
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Chris Bohjalian was born to an Armenian father and Swedish mother.
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On October 13,1984, Chris Bohjalian married Victoria Schaeffer Blewer during a ceremony at the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City.