Julie Chibbaro

Julie Chibbaro is the author of Redemption (Simon & Schuster, 2004), a novel of love and betrayal set in pre-colonial America. In 2005, Redemption won the American Book Award. Julie Chibbaro’s stories have appeared in The Prague Revue and Slingshot, and her articles in The Montreal Gazette and The Prague Post. Her next novel, about the search for Typhoid Mary in New York City, will be published by Simon & Schuster in early 2011.

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It’s the end of the Middle Ages, and the New World has just been discovered. Eric Applegate, a religious dissenter, has been kidnapped and sent to America to start a colony for a greedy baron. Nearly a year later, his 12-year-old daughter Lily and her mother go after him. They cross the Atlantic on a dirty ship, and crash into the New World. There, Lily loses her mother and finds her father, who’s become a white Indian.

Deadly: The Search for Typhoid Mary (coming in March 2011)

The year is 1906 in New York City and people are dying of the fever. Sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski, a Jewish girl from the lower east side who works for the department of health, discovers something unexpected – a cook who spreads the typhoid fever through her cooking. In this diary, Prudence explores her feelings when she comes face-to-face with the real Typhoid Mary.