About Eve LaPlante
A New Englander with degrees from Princeton and Harvard, Eve has published many articles, essays, and books. Her picture book Who Needs A Statue?, coauthored by Margy Burns Knight and illustrated by Alix Delinois, will be published by Tilbury House in October 2024.
Her book Seized is a narrative portrait of a common brain disorder that can alter personality. American Jezebel tells the true story of Eve’s ancestor Anne Hutchinson, a founding mother. Salem Witch Judge, about the 1692 judge who became an abolitionist and feminist, won the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. NPR named her third ancestor biography - Marmee & Louisa, about Louisa May Alcott and her mother - a top ten book of the year. Eve collected and edited a companion volume to Marmee & Louisa, a compilation of writings by Abigail May Alcott called My Heart Is Boundless.
Eve’s biographies “have been praised,” according to the Boston Book Festival, “as reminiscent of a more celebratory Nathaniel Hawthorne.” In the anthology Boston, which includes the preface to American Jezebel, Shaun O’Connell observed, “Just as Nathaniel Hawthorne dug into the dark history of his ancestry, which reached back both to the original Boston settlement of the 1630s and the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s, so too did LaPlante trace family members who were rooted in the same eras ... Hawthorne took shame upon himself for the misdeeds of his Puritan ancestors, and LaPlante offers praise for her forebears who testified against Puritan repression. As her prefaces to these biographies, a kind of spiritual autobiography, show, Anne Hutchinson and Samuel Sewall were not the dark Puritans many imagined. They remain living presences, even models of rectitude, into the twenty-first century.”
Her book Seized is a narrative portrait of a common brain disorder that can alter personality. American Jezebel tells the true story of Eve’s ancestor Anne Hutchinson, a founding mother. Salem Witch Judge, about the 1692 judge who became an abolitionist and feminist, won the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. NPR named her third ancestor biography - Marmee & Louisa, about Louisa May Alcott and her mother - a top ten book of the year. Eve collected and edited a companion volume to Marmee & Louisa, a compilation of writings by Abigail May Alcott called My Heart Is Boundless.
Eve’s biographies “have been praised,” according to the Boston Book Festival, “as reminiscent of a more celebratory Nathaniel Hawthorne.” In the anthology Boston, which includes the preface to American Jezebel, Shaun O’Connell observed, “Just as Nathaniel Hawthorne dug into the dark history of his ancestry, which reached back both to the original Boston settlement of the 1630s and the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s, so too did LaPlante trace family members who were rooted in the same eras ... Hawthorne took shame upon himself for the misdeeds of his Puritan ancestors, and LaPlante offers praise for her forebears who testified against Puritan repression. As her prefaces to these biographies, a kind of spiritual autobiography, show, Anne Hutchinson and Samuel Sewall were not the dark Puritans many imagined. They remain living presences, even models of rectitude, into the twenty-first century.”
The author with her great-aunt Charlotte
May
Wilson, the family genealogist, Cape Cod, 1966.
Feel free to contact the author at [email protected].
For a review copy of Marmee & Louisa or My Heart Is Boundless, please contact publicist Erin Reback at (212) 698-7426 or [email protected].
For a review copy of Salem Witch Judge or American Jezebel, please contact publicist Julie Burton at (415) 477-4407 or julie.burton@harpercollins.com.
To schedule an interview or event, please email [email protected] or [email protected].
For a review copy of Marmee & Louisa or My Heart Is Boundless, please contact publicist Erin Reback at (212) 698-7426 or [email protected].
For a review copy of Salem Witch Judge or American Jezebel, please contact publicist Julie Burton at (415) 477-4407 or julie.burton@harpercollins.com.
To schedule an interview or event, please email [email protected] or [email protected].