Novel by Holy Cross Professor Wins Acclaim

Leah Hager Cohen, who holds the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, recently published the novel The Grief of Others. The book was published by Riverhead Press on September 15 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.

The Grief of Others was chosen as Book of the Week by Oprah Winfrey. This is Professor Cohen’s fourth novel and she has written four other nonfiction works.