Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, worked in advertising in New York, and has lived in Lincoln, Vermont, since the late 1980s. He is a novelist and playwright. His stage work includes Wingspan and a play version of Midwives.

His fiction spans domestic drama, historical narrative, and thriller. Small New England towns anchor several novels. Midwives follows a midwife who faces a legal battle after a patient dies in an emergency C-section. The Sandcastle Girls is set against the Armenian Genocide. Skeletons at the Feast tracks the final months of World War II through Poland and Germany. Secrets of Eden deals with domestic violence. Trans-Sister Radio was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in the transgender category.

Midwives was selected for Oprah's Book Club. The Flight Attendant became an Emmy-winning limited series on HBO Max. His novels have been translated into numerous languages.

On WebToTell, the Signet Classics Les Misérables in the Fahnestock and MacAfee translation is the entry point. Bohjalian wrote the afterword, and the translation gives you a complete, readable Hugo. If you want his own fiction, Midwives is the tightest character study and The Flight Attendant the fastest plot.