Joan Leegant

Joan Leegant, author of An Hour in Paradise and Wherever You Go, won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for the best book of Jewish-American fiction and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Joan Leegant

Joan Leegant, author of An Hour in Paradise and Wherever You Go, won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for the best book of Jewish-American fiction and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Awards

Winner — Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 2003

Winner — PEN New England / L. L. Winship Award, 2004

Books by Joan Leegant

  • Wherever You Go: A Novel

    Joan Leegant

    Hardback, 2010

    A debut novel by a writer who has been praised for bringing “matter and spirit together . . . with unsuspected, unquantifiable meaning.”—New York Times Book Review
  • An Hour in Paradise: Stories

    Joan Leegant

    Paperback, 2004

    "Joan Leegant writes stories that last, stories that take root in the soul."—Bret Lott, author of Jewel
  • Wherever You Go: A Novel

    Joan Leegant

    Paperback, 2011

    “Timely and brave. . . . Leegant is a masterful weaver.”—Miami Herald
  • Wherever You Go: A Novel

    Joan Leegant

    E Book, 2011

    “Timely and brave. . . . Leegant is a masterful weaver.”—Miami Herald
  • An Hour in Paradise: Stories

    Joan Leegant

    E Book, 2010

    "Joan Leegant writes stories that last, stories that take root in the soul."—Bret Lott, author of Jewel