Joan Leegant is the author of WHEREVER YOU GO, and AN HOUR IN PARADISE, which won the Winship PEN/New England Book Award and the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was a Selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Formerly an attorney, she taught at Harvard University for eight years. Since 2007, she has lived half the year in Tel Aviv where she is the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University and lectures for the U.S. State Department. When not in Israel she lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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