Joseph Olshan

Joseph Olshan is the award-winning author of eleven novels including NightswimmerThe Waterline, Cloudland, and Black Diamond Fall.

Milo’s Reckoning

When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, learns of the sudden and mysterious death of his mentor, Lenny D’Ambrosio, despite the official ruling of suicide, he suspects foul play. Embarking on a quest for answers, his investigation unexpectedly intertwines with the accidental death of his brother, Carlo, six years prior.

Meet Joseph Olshan

Joseph Olshan’s first novel, Clara’s Heart, won the London Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers’ Competition and went on to be made into a film starring Whoopie Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris. In addition to his novels, he has written extensively for newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Times (London), The Guardian, The Independent (London), The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, People Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. His work has been translated into sixteen languages.  For the last twelve years he has worked as the editorial director of Delphinium Books (Publishers Group West).

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Reviews

Reviews of Joseph Olshan’s novels

“And impressive novel…. Clara’s Heart is notable precisely because of the risks Joseph Olshan has taken that do succeed, not the least of which is its sensitive and often comical treatment of the unique love between a precocious American boy and a wise, if tormented Jamaican woman.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Extraordinarily mature….Here is a writer in total command of his narrative.”—Ian McEwan

“Olshan’s novels are novels of great obsessions, of transcendent moments of perfect love set against a backdrop of hovering betrayal and death.”

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“A Work of art.”

—Los Angeles Times

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