The lifeboat book charlotte rogan biography

Charlotte Rogan spent 25 years as a closet writer before The Lifeboat was published in The book was nominated for the Guardian first book award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Goldsboro Books and Historical Writers Association debut historical fiction prize. It was included on The Huffington Post’s list of “21 books from the last 5 years that every woman should read,” is in development as a motion picture starring Anne Hathaway, and has been translated into 26 languages.

Rogan’s second novel, Now and Again, continues to explore issues of morality and justice.

&#;I was born in Mount Kisco, New York, moved every few years, easily absorbed the primary lesson of my early education, which was to tell people what they wanted to hear, was exposed to many mystifying church-based institutions but also to the majesty of nature, attended a strange and repressive boarding school, and found myself at Princeton University at the tail end of the Vietnam War.

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