Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist and the author of 18 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'
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On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
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I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.
I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
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I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
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I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
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On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.
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If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.
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I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
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When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.