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Sheila Kohler presents her novel, Becoming Jane Eyre, which brings the tragedy-filled circumstances of Charlotte Brontë and her family vividly to life.

About Sheila Kohler

Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and later lived in Paris for fifteen years, where she married, completed her undergraduate degree in Literature at the Sorbonne, and a graduate degree in Psychology at the Institut Catholique. She moved to the U.S. in 1981 and earned an MFA in Writing at Columbia. She currently teaches at Princeton University. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, O Magazine and included in the Best American Short Stories. She has twice won an O’Henry Prize, as well as an Open Fiction Award, a Willa Cather Prize, and a Smart Family Foundation Prize. Her novel Cracks was nominated for an Impac Award, and has been made into a feature film to be distributed by IFC.

Read a review of Becoming Jane Eyre from the Washington Post