Ann Weisgarber

Ann Weisgarber's debut novel, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, won the 2010 Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction, the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Ohioana Book Award. In England, it was nominated for the Orange Prize and for the Orange Award for New Writers. It was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers book and an Indie Next List Great Read. The film rights have been optioned by actress Viola Davis.

Weisgarber earned a B.A. in Social Work from Wright State University and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Houston. She lives in Sugar Land, Texas. Her second novel will be published in 2012.

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