Valerie Martin, author portrait
© Michael Lionstar

Valerie Martin

VALERIE MARTIN is the author of eleven novels, four collections of short fiction, and a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Kafka Prize (for Mary Reilly) and Britain's Orange Prize (for Property).
Mrs. Gulliver
I Give It to You
Sea Lovers
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
Italian Fever
The Confessions of Edward Day
Trespass
The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
Property
The Great Divorce
Salvation
Mary Reilly

Books

Mrs. Gulliver
I Give It to You
Sea Lovers
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
Italian Fever
The Confessions of Edward Day
Trespass
The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories
Property
The Great Divorce
Salvation
Mary Reilly

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