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Rachel Cantor

Biography

Rachel Cantor

Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels A HIGHLY UNLIKELY SCENARIO, GOOD ON PAPER and HALF-LIFE OF A STOLEN SISTER. Two dozen of her short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere, and she has written essays about fiction for National Public Radio, the Guardian, Publishers Weekly and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Rachel Cantor

Books by Rachel Cantor

Half-Life of a Stolen Sister: A Novel of the Brontës
by Rachel Cantor - Fiction

How did sisters Emily, Charlotte and Anne write literary landmarks JANE EYRE, WUTHERING HEIGHTS and AGNES GREY? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible? In her new novel, Rachel Cantor melds biographical fact with unruly invention to illuminate the siblings’ genius, their bonds of love and duty, periods of furious creativity, and the ongoing tolls of illness, isolation and loss. As it tells the story of the Brontës, HALF-LIFE OF A STOLEN SISTER itself perpetually transforms and renews its own style and methods, sometimes hewing close to the facts of the Brontë lives as we know them (or think we know them), and at others radically reimagining the siblings.