Allegra Goodman

The author of the novels "Kaaterskill Falls" and, more recently, "The Cookbook Collector" discusses her work as part of the Jewish Literature Live Seminar. Information: 202-994-7470.

Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman will read from and sign her eagerly anticipated new novel The Cookbook Collector, in which she weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, ... (more)temptation, and fulfillment.

"A chilling vision of the future, written with imagination and flare...exotic and surreal."Alan Lightman author of

Einstein's Dreams

"Goodman has written a bracing, exhilarating novel that manages to be both subversive and optimistic."Washington Post

Allegra Goodman is the author ... (more)of

Intuition,

Paradise Park,

Kaaterskill Falls,

The Family Markowitz, and

Total Immersion. The Other Side of the Island is her first book for younger readers. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares, Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and The American Scholar. Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass.