about the author
Sarah Blake
Author of the New York Times-bestselling The Postmistress
Sarah Blake is the author of The New York Times-bestselling novel The Postmistress. Born in New York City, Sarah Blake has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University. She is the author of a chapbook of poems, Full Turn (Pennywhistle Press, 1989), an artist book, Runaway Girls (Hand Made Press, 1997) in collaboration with the artist, Robin Kahn, and two novels. Her first novel, Grange House, (Picador, 2000) was named a “New and Noteworthy” paperback in August, 2001 by The New York Times. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Good Housekeeping, US News and World Reports, The Chicago Tribune and elsewhere.
Press Links
"Female characters deliver"
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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The Washington Post
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People Magazine
"Secrets held in messages undelivered"
Newark Star-Ledger
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Entertainment Weekly
"The Postmistress delivers a potent message about words"
USA Today
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Ms. Magazine
"Delivering Bad News and Bearing It"
The New York Times
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BookPage.com
Featured Book
The Postmistress
"Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. The Postmistress is one of those rare books. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. Sarah Blake seamlessly moves from inside one character to another, in a novel that reminds us of a time when the news travelled from post to paper to radio and that is how we learned about the world. The Postmistress made me homesick for a time before I was even born. What's remarkable, however, is how relevant the story is to our present-day times. A beautifully written, thought provoking novel that I'm telling everyone I know to read."
—Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help
Speaking Topics
- The Postmistress
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