Eowyn LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She received her BA in journalism and minor in creative writing through the honors program at Western Washington University, studied creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage graduate program, and worked for nearly 10 years as an award-winning reporter at the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
"A transporting tale . . . an amazing achievement."--Sena Jeter
Naslund, New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife
"Eowyn Ivey's exquisite debut transports the reader away to a world
almost out of time, into a fairytale destined to both chill and
delight. Her portrayal of an untamed Alaska is so detailed you can
feel the snowflakes on your own eyelashes, even as her characters'
desperate quest for, and ultimate redemption by, love will warm
your heart."--Melanie Benjamin, author of Alice I Have Been
"If Willa Cather and Gabriel Garcia Marquez had collaborated on a
book, THE SNOW CHILD would be it. It is a remarkable accomplishment
-- a combination of the most delicate, ethereal, fairytale magic
and the harsh realities of homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness
in 1918. Stunningly conceived, beautifully told, this story has the
intricate fragility of a snowflake and the natural honesty of the
dirt beneath your feet, the unnerving reality of a dream in the
night. It fascinates, it touches the heart. It gallops along even
as it takes time to pause at the wonder of life and the world in
which we live. And it will stir you up and stay with you for a
long, long time."--Robert Goolrick, New York Times bestselling
author of A Reliable Wife
"Long winters come alive in Ivey's novel about 1920s-era
homesteaders in Alaska."--Tina Jordan, New York Times
"Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in
its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who
settled there, including an older couple bound together by
resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from
the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying
Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it
nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in
this land of extremes."--Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of The
Spanish Bow
"This book is real magic, shot through from cover to cover with the
cold, wild beauty of the Alaskan frontier. Eowyn Ivey writes with
all the captivating delicacy of the snowfalls she so beautifully
describes."--Ali Shaw, author of The Girl with Glass Feet
"THE SNOW CHILD is a vivid story of isolation and hope on the
Alaska frontier, a narrative of struggle with the elements and the
elemental conflict between one's inner demons and dreams, and the
miracle of human connection and community in a spectacular,
dangerous world. You will not soon forget this story of learning to
accept the gifts that fate and love can bring."--Robert Morgan,
author of Gap Creek
"THE SNOW CHILD is enchanting from beginning to end. Ivey breathes
life into an old tale and makes it as fresh as the season' s first
snow. Simply lovely."--Keith Donohue, New York Times bestselling
author of The Stolen Child
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