Alabama Booksmith

Sena Jeter Naslund was born in Birmingham and graduated from Birmingham Southern College. She is co-founder of the Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-lis Press. She is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville and is on the MFA faculty at Vermont College.

Her remarkable work Ahab's Wife was named by the independent booksellers of America as the book of the month for November-December 1999. It was a finalist for Book Sense Book of the Year. Her opening line is one of our all time favorites: "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." Her novel Four Spirits, a New York Times Notable Book for 2003, is an inspiring, brilliantly rendered new novel of the awakening conscience of the South and of an entire nation.

Her latest book, Abundance, is a novel of the life of Marie Antoinette, from her coronation to her death. Sena is fluent in French and did extensive research in France to write this brilliant, compelling novel.

Sena Jeter Naslund's books include the following:

Abundance
Four Spirits
Ahab's Wife
The Animal Way
The Disobedience of Water
Ice Skating at the North Pole
Sherlock in Love