Book Review: 'Family History'

Fresh Air | By Maureen Corrigan

Published April 7, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Family History, the new novel by Dani Shapiro.

Maureen Corrigan

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.

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