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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1979
  • Latest Book:
    October 1996
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About the Author

Doris Grumbach died on November 4, 2022 in Kennett Square, Pa. She was 104.

Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • """I believe Chamber Music will be a classic. It deserves to be."" —Alice Walker

    Caroline Maclaren, the ninety-year-old widow of a famous American composer, reaches back into her memories to tell the story of their life together. I...



  • The Missing Person is a tellingly achieved fusion of thought and action and the most fully realized evocation of Hollywood themes in a long, long time.” ―Alan Cheuse, Los Angeles Herald Examiner

    The Missing Person is a daring work that tell...



  • "A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one."

    Newsday

    In the late 18th century, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defied all conventions of their Irish homeland and el...



  • The Magician's Girl tells the story of three New York women who meet at Barnard in the late 1930s and fulfill their separate destinies from the 1940s to 1978. Lyrical, dramatic, and wise, Grumbach's novel is rich with evocations of America's past,...



  • Meeting in 1929 on the brink of adolescence, four children who were raised in isolation by a widowed mother grow into young men and women whose lives are marked by incest, homosexuality, and celibacy....



  • Harvey Robertson, an ordinary American citizen of no particular importance, buys a cream-filled donut one day in November 2010. This simple act launches him into a perilous quest to save the United States from tyranny. A semi-retired technical writer...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Doris Grumbach has published 6 books.

Doris Grumbach does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Life in a Day, was published in October 1996.

The first book by Doris Grumbach, Chamber Music, was published in March 1979.

No. Doris Grumbach does not write books in series.