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John Burnham Schwartz is the bestselling author of five novels, including Northwest Corner, The Commoner, and Reservation Road, which was made into a film based on his screenplay. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and he has done extensive screen and television writing for the major Hollywood studios, including as screenwriter of HBO Films' The Wizard of Lies starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, for which he was nominated for a 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing. Literary Director of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, writer Aleksandra Crapanzano, and their son Garrick.
A woman is haunted by the sins of her father. Schwartz takes the extreme of that dilemma-not just any father: it's Joseph Stalin-and tells a powerful tale of one daughter's struggle to free herself and rewrite her own history * Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank * Like an old world alchemist, John Burnham Schwartz takes for his base elements a character who in real life was as famous as she was misunderstood, and he spins gold. We recognize something of ourselves in Svetlana's complicated and conflicted soul, and through her eyes we have a deeply insightful glimpse of an America that eludes us, but must be apparent to an outsider. The Red Daughter is brilliant, thoughtful, and beautifully imagined-a masterpiece by a writer at his best * Abraham Verghese, New York Times bestselling author of My Own Country * The Red Daughter is one of those novels I wish I could have written, if only I were smarter. It's an act of literary resurrection, bringing Svetlana Alliluyeva back to life and liberating her from her father's shadow. In these pages we watch a broken human try to piece herself back together, again and again. Her life was endlessly fascinating, often heartbreaking, and ultimately heroic. I don't think any writer alive could have told her story more beautifully than John Burnham Schwartz * David Benioff, Co-creator of HBO's Game of Thrones and author of City of Thieves * The Red Daughter is an intimate, intricate look at the collision of geopolitics with a private life: surprising and engaging from beginning to end * Jennifer Egan * John Burnham Schwartz has drawn such a fine and generous portrait of Stalin's daughter-a difficult, complicated, and deeply sympathetic woman-that I read his novel in a single great draught, and ever since have been worried about Svetlana as though she were a close and troubled friend of mine. The Red Daughter is a lustrous book * Lauren Groff *
