The Escape Artist by Helen Fremont Overview - A luminous new memoir from the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller After Long Silence, The Escape Artist has been lauded by New York Times bestselling author Mary Karr as “beautifully written, honest, and psychologically astute. Helen Fremont is an award-winning author and essayist. She wrote the critically-acclaimed, national best-selling After Long Silence. And The Escape Artist. Her works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Prize Stories: The O. Feb 11, 2020 Helen Fremont's first memoir, After Long Silence, details how she and her sister learn about their family's hidden Holocaust past, a process she hopes will be liberating, but instead only further splinters her family. Her second memoir, The Escape Artist, fills in the shadowy emotional ground in this family beset by secrets and silence.

HELEN FREMONT, a lawyer and writer, was raised Roman Catholic by her Eastern European emigre parents. It was not until she was thirty-five that she discovered that her parents were, in fact, Jewish Holocaust survivors. The story of her parents’ survival of the Soviet and Nazi occupations, as well as her own efforts to piece together her family’s hidden identity is recorded in her memoir, After Long Silence, published by Delacorte in 1999 (now available from Penguin Random House). A national bestseller and Featured Alternate of the Book of the Month Club, the book has been published in England and Germany. It was selected by The New York Times as a “New and Noteworthy” book in 2000.

Her critically acclaimed new memoir, The Escape Artist, was selected as a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” new book in 2020. It was also recommended as one of the “Best New Books” by People Magazine in 2020, and BookPage named it a “Reader’s Choice” book of 2020.

Helen is a graduate of Wellesley College, Boston University Law School, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She has been an attorney with the Massachusetts public defender agency since 1985, and was a consultant with the U.S. Justice Department. She was also a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Scholars Program, a fiction editor of the Marlboro Review, and has taught at Harvard University, Emerson College, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. She was awarded a fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was selected the Common Book Author by Otterbein College in Columbus, Ohio. Her works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Lilith, among other publications.

Helen lives in Boston with her wife, Donna, their giant mutt, Roshi (a rescued Houston Street Dog) and Louie, the cat who deigns to live with them. An avid rower and outdoorswoman, Helen can be found most mornings before dawn rowing on the Charles River, or working out at the Y. She co-hosts The Unauthorized Eleanor Wilner Reading Series for Friends of Writers, Inc.

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