She lives in Connecticut and is now Wesleyan University’s Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing.'NO LOVE like old love.' So begins the critically acclaimed novel White Houses, by Amy Bloom, author of Away and Lucky Us (both New York Times bestsellers) and Come to Me: Stories (a National Book Award finalist).

She has written many pilot scripts, for cable and network, and she created, wrote and ran the excellent, short-lived series State of Mind, starring Lili Taylor. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, O Magazine and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. She’s been a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Through it all, even as Hick’s bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.Īuthor of two New York Times best-sellers and three collections of short stories, a children’s book and a ground-breaking collection of essays. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. She moves into the White House, where her status as “first friend” is an open secret, as are FDR’s own lovers. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, “Hick,” as she’s known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign.

to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan’s Washington Square, Amy Bloom’s new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity. We are thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom to the Fishers Island Library! Bloom’s newest novel, White Houses, is an historical tale of forbidden love and has been garnering rave reviews from readers and critics alike! From Washington, D.C.

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