Sena Jeter Naslund

Best known for her critically-acclaimed, best-selling novel Ahab’s Wife, a finalist for the Orange Prize, Sena Jeter Naslund is the author of nine works of fiction, the most recent being The Fountain of St. James Court or Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman. Her books have been translated into Spanish, German, Danish, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese. She is working now on a historical novel titled Before the War, about the childhood and early adulthoods of Frederick and Anna Douglass, Abraham and Mary Lincoln, and Jefferson and Varina Davis.