Sena Jeter Naslund





Sena Jeter Naslund

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Birmingham, The United States

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Sena Jeter Naslund is the New York Times best-selling author of five novels, including Ahab's Wife (1999) and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette (HarperCollins, 2006). She is currently Distinguished Teaching Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville and program director of the Spalding University brief-residency Master in Fine Arts in Writing. Recipient of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction Award, she is co-founder of The Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-Lis Press. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky."


Average rating: 3.85 · 17,856 ratings · 2,492 reviews · 12 distinct works
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 12,134 ratings — published 1999 — 22 editions
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Abundance, A Novel of Marie...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 4,094 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions
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Four Spirits
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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Adam & Eve
2.66 of 5 stars 2.66 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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Sherlock in Love: A Novel
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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The Disobedience of Water: ...
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Ice Skating at the North Pole
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1989
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006
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The Animal Way to Love
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993
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“If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.”
Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

“Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.”
Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”
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