Eve LaPlante
 Eve LaPlante  The author with her great-aunt Charlotte May Wilson, the family genealogist, on Cape Cod in 1966. |
Eve LaPlante's award-winning Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall (HarperOne, 2007) follows the Boston Globe bestseller American Jezebel (HarperOne, 2004, 2005) and Seized (Harper-Collins, 1993, 2000). She contributed to the essay collection Why I'm Still Married (Penguin, 2006) and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Gourmet. LaPlante, who has degrees from Princeton and Harvard, lives with her family in New England on land that Judge Sewall once owned. "LaPlante's touching biography of Samuel Sewall... seems hauntingly familiar. Beneath the sensational title is a figure more familiar than we realize... Salem Witch Judge upends popular stereotypes about Puritans... [and] reminds us how quickly the conventional wisdom can shift, forcing even the powerful to move." The New York Times Book Review "LaPlante's splendid biography brings a personal touch to Sewall's story... Much as she did in American Jezebel, the marvelous biography of her 12th-generation ancestor Anne Hutchinson, LaPlante richly narrates his life... drawing on Sewall's diaries and stories told by her Aunt Charlotte." Publishers Weekly Eve LaPlante is available for media interviews and to speak at public events. To schedule a Salem Witch Judge event, contact the author directly via this website. For a review copy or press release contact Rachael Maier, publicist at HarperOne, at rachael.maier@ |
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