Alyson Richman | |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | Wellesley College |
Notable works | The Lost Wife |
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Alyson Richman is an American writer best known for The Lost Wife, a tale of a husband and wife who are separated in a concentration camp during World War II and reunited 60 years later at their grandchildren's wedding. [1] Her novels have been published in more than 25 languages and have received both national and international acclaim. [2]
Richman graduated from Wellesley College in 1994 [3] and received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. [4] She currently lives with her husband and two children on Long Island, New York.
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