Chris Bohjalian is the author of eleven novels, including his most recent New York Times bestseller, The Double Bind – which arrives in libraries and bookstores in paperback in February 2008.

His next novel, Skeletons at the Feast, arrives in early May 2008.

Chris won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly "Best Book," and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into 20 languages, been published in 22 countries, and twice become acclaimed movies ("Midwives" and "Past the Bleachers").

Both Before You Know Kindness and The Buffalo Soldier are now in development for independent films.

He has written for a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and has been a Sunday columnist for Gannett's Burlington Free Press since 1992. Chris graduated from Amherst College, and lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.

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Learn more about how Chris works and his world in Vermont. Watch the bn.com video and the NECN video.

Watch Chris Bohjalian's column, "Idyll Banter," brought to life on the Hallmark Channel's New Morning.

Read Chris Bohjalian's weekly Burlington Free Press Column, "Idyll Banter".