Joanna Hershon

Joanna Hershon has written five novels: St. Ivo, Swimming, The Outside of August, The German Bride, and A Dual Inheritance. Her work has been published in (among other places) The Yale Review, The London Magazine, Granta, The New York Times, One Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the anthologies Brooklyn Was Mine, Freud's Blind Spot and was short-listed for the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Cover of St. Ivo, by Joanna Hershon.
'St. Ivo,' Farrar, Straus, & Giroux