David Ebershoff is the author of four books, including The Danish Girl and the #1 bestseller The 19th Wife. The Danish Girl has been adapted as a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by Academy Award-winning director of The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper. The 19th Wife was made into a television movie that has aired around the globe. Ebershoff's books have been translated into twenty languages to critical acclaim and twice Out Magazine has named him to its annual Out 100 list of influential LGBT people. David teaches in the graduate writing program of Columbia University. Originally from Pasadena, California, he now lives in New York City.
My duty, I know, is to lead. I cannot offer an array of options. I must offer a long but narrow path to Salvation, and guide the Saints down it. Were that path wide and varied, it would lead nowhere; and I will then have failed both God and man.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. .
