VJ Books presents Sarah Vowell!

Sarah Vowell was born December 27, 1969 in Muskogee, Oklahoma and is an American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator.

 

Vowell earned a B.A. from Montana State University in 1993 in Modern Languages and Literatures and an M.A. in Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Vowell received the Music Journalism Award in 1996.

 

Vowell is a New York Times’ bestselling author of five nonfiction books on American history and culture.

 

By examining the connections between the American past and present, she offers personal, often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on American Indians, utopian dreamers, pop music and the odd cranky cartographer.

Vowell's novel, The Wordy Shipmates, examines the New England Puritans and their journey to and impact on America.  Her book Assassination Vacation (2005) is a haunting and surprisingly hilarious road trip to tourist sites devoted to the murders of presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. Vowell examines what these acts of political violence reveal about our national character and our contemporary society.  Sarah's most recent book is Unfamiliar Fishes (March 2011 NY: Penguin).

 

With Vowell's trademark wry insights and reporting, she lights out to discover the odd, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state. In examining the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn, she finds America again, warts and all.

 

Vowell lives in New York City.

 

 

Assassination Vacation                   1st Edition Trade

Unfamiliar Fishes   Signed 1st Edition