Chris Bohjalian is a renowned author, with 15 novels to his credit.

Born in 1962 in White Plains, New York, Bohjalian graduated from Amherst College.

After moving with his family to Lincoln, Vermont, in 1987, Bohjalian began writing weekly columns for local newspapers and magazines about life in the small town. He has also written for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.

Bohjalian’s novels include A Killing in the Real World; Past the Bleachers, which was adapted into a Hallmark Channel television movie in 1995; the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Midwives, which was adapted into a Lifetime Movie Network television film starring Sissy Spacek, in 2001; Skeletons at the Feast, selected as a “Best Book of the Year” by The Washington Post; The Night Strangers, which won the New England Society Book Award for fiction in 2012; and The Sandcastle Girl, chosen by Oprah Winfrey as a “Book of the Week.”