Kristin Hannah
2 books analyzed
Biography
Kristin Hannah was born in 1960 in Garden Grove, California. Before becoming a novelist she studied law. She has lived in the Pacific Northwest for much of her career, which gives her a genuine relationship with the temperate wilderness that informs her Alaska research. The Great Alone required extensive research into Alaskan geography, homesteading, survivalist movements, and PTSD. She is one of the bestselling novelists in America, known for emotionally intense literary fiction that bridges commercial and literary audiences.
Kristin Hannah at a glance
Works
The Great Alone
2018 · 440 pages · ★☆☆☆☆ Accessible
A family follows a broken man to the Alaskan wilderness — and discovers that the greatest danger is not the land, it is the one who brought them there.
The Nightingale
2015 · 440 pages · ★☆☆☆☆ Accessible
Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France make impossible choices — and one of them will disappear from history entirely.
Diction Across Works
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accessible-emotional