Jeanne Blasberg

Jeanne Blasberg is a novelist, travel writer, and adventurer.

She is an award-winning, bestselling author of Eden and The Nine. She has won the the Beverly Hills Book Awards for Women’s Fiction and has been a finalist for both the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction and the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction.

Jeanne is the founder of the Westerly Memoir Project as well as a board member of the Boston Book Festival. She is a student and board member of Grub Street, one of the country’s pre-eminent creative writing centers, where she wrote and revised The Nine and is currently developing her next novel.

Jeanne shares her story and how she comes up with her stories with Lou Diamond on Bedside Reading's Authors That Thrive.