Joan Barthel is the author of A DEATH IN CANAAN, which spent many weeks on the bestseller list and was made into a CBS TV movie that was nominated for an Emmy Award. Following A DEATH IN CANAAN, Barthel wrote A DEATH IN CALIFORNIA and collaborated with Rosemary Clooney on GIRL SINGER. Barthel has written profiles of celebrities for such publications as The New York Times Magazine and The Washington Post Magazine. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Books by Joan Barthel

American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton

by Joan Barthel - Biography, Nonfiction

In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton, critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth resisted male clerical control of her religious order, as nuns are doing today, and the publication of her story could not be more timely.