Chris Bohjalian
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| Born |
August 12, 1962 White Plains, New York |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Ethnicity | Armenian and Swedish |
| Alma mater | Amherst College |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable awards |
Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection, 1998, for Midwives Anahid Literary Award, Columbia Armenian Center, 2000 New England Book Award for fiction, New England Booksellers Association, 2002 |
| Spouse | Victoria Schaeffer Blewer, since October 13, 1984 |
Chris Bohjalian (Armenian: Քրիս Պոհճալեան), is an American novelist and the author of 19 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.
Chris Bohjalian graduated from Amherst College, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In the mid-1980s, he worked as an account representative for J. Walter Thompson, an ad agency, in New York. After a threatening incident in town, he moved with his wife to Lincoln, Vermont, in 1987.
In Lincoln, Bohjalian began writing weekly columns for local newspaper and magazine about living in the small town, which had a population of about 975 residents. The column has run in the Burlington Free Press since 1992. Bohjalian has also written for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, The New York TImes, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.
Bohjalian's first novel, A Killing in the Real World, was released in 1988. His third novel, Past the Bleachers, was released in 1992 and was adapted to a Hallmark Channel television movie in 1995.
In 1998, Bohjalian wrote his fifth book, Midwives, a novel focusing on rural Vermont midwife Sibyl Danforth, who becomes embroiled in a legal battle after one of her patients died following an emergency Caesarean section. The novel was critically acclaimed and was selected by Oprah Winfrey as the October 1998 selection of her Oprah's Book Club, which helped push the book to great financial success. It became a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a Lifetime Movie Network television film starring Sissy Spacek in the lead role. Spacek said the Danforth character appealed to her because "the heart of the story is my character's inner struggle with self-doubt, the solo road you travel when you have a secret".
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