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Jennifer Chiaverini Biography & Facts

Jennifer Chiaverini (born 1969) is a New York Times bestselling author of several historical novels and the Elm Creek Quilts series, as well as six collections of quilt patterns inspired by her books. Her original quilt designs have been featured in Country Woman, Quiltmaker, Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Volumes 3-5, and Quilt, and her short stories have appeared in Quiltmaker and Quilters Newsletter. She also designed the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines for Red Rooster Fabrics. Her first book, The Quilter's Apprentice, was released in 1999. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she taught writing in the English Departments of Penn State and Edgewood College. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, she currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin. About her historical fiction, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes, “In addition to simply being fascinating stories, these novels go a long way in capturing the texture of life for women, rich and poor, black and white, in those perilous years.” Chiaverini's 2016 book, Fates and Traitors, tells the story of John Wilkes Booth from Booth's point of view.In 2017, Chiaverini released Enchantress of the Numbers, a historical novel about the mathematician Ada Lovelace. Bibliography Elm Creek Quilts novels The Quilter's Apprentice (1999) Round Robin (2000) The Cross-Country Quilters (2001) The Runaway Quilt (2002) The Quilter's Legacy (2003) The Master Quilter (2004) The Sugar Camp Quilt (2005) The Christmas Quilt (2005) Circle of Quilters (2006) The Quilter's Homecoming (2007) The New Year's Quilt (2007) The Winding Ways Quilt (2008) The Quilter's Kitchen (2008) The Lost Quilter (2009) A Quilter's Holiday (2009) The Aloha Quilt (2010) The Union Quilters (2011) The Wedding Quilt (2011) Sonoma Rose (2012) The Giving Quilt (2012) The Christmas Boutique (2019)Collections of quilt patterns inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts novels Elm Creek Quilts: Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels Return to Elm Creek: More Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels More Elm Creek Quilts: 11 Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels Sylvia's Bridal Sampler from Elm Creek QuiltsHistorical novels Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker (2013) The Spymistress (2013) Mrs. Lincoln's Rival (2014) Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule (2015) Christmas Bells (2015) Fates and Traitors (2016) Enchantress of Numbers (2017) Resistance Woman (2019) Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters (2020) The Women's March (2021) Switchboard Soldiers (2022)References External links Jennifer Chiaverini's Official Website Jennifer Chiaverini's Amazon profile. Discover the Jennifer Chiaverini popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jennifer Chiaverini books.

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  • Circle of Quilters synopsis, comments

    Circle of Quilters

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The ninth book in Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling serieswhen two of Elm Creek Quilts’ founding members decide to leave the fold, who can possibly take their place in the circle o...

  • Fates and Traitors synopsis, comments

    Fates and Traitors

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and Canary Girls returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and...

  • Switchboard Soldiers synopsis, comments

    Switchboard Soldiers

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War Ithe women of the U.S. Army Signal...

  • The Union Quilters synopsis, comments

    The Union Quilters

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    "Chiaverini has once again written an intense and beautiful bookso much so that readers will almost hear the hollow echo of the fife and drum as they immerse themselves in every...

  • Round Robin synopsis, comments

    Round Robin

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Jennifer Chiaverini’s bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series began with The Quilter’s Apprentice and continues with Round Robinthe name for a quilt stitched by many hands in turna poi...

  • The Giving Quilt synopsis, comments

    The Giving Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    “Why do you give?” asks Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson Cooper in The Giving Quilt, the New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s artful, inspiring novel that...

  • Canary Girls synopsis, comments

    Canary Girls

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bo...

  • The Runaway Quilt synopsis, comments

    The Runaway Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The fourth book in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series explores a question that has long captured the imagination of quilters and historians alike: Did stationmasters of the Underg...

  • The Spymistress synopsis, comments

    The Spymistress

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of “a true Unio...

  • An Elm Creek Quilts Companion synopsis, comments

    An Elm Creek Quilts Companion

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    A beautiful keepsake volume to accompany the beloved New York Times bestselling seriesOver the course of the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, readers have expressed a longing t...

  • When the Summer Was Ours synopsis, comments

    When the Summer Was Ours

    Roxanne Veletzos

    “This compulsively readable tale of loss and love during and after the Second World War is a masterpiece.” Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author “A gorgeously written, ...

  • The Aloha Quilt synopsis, comments

    The Aloha Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Another season of Elm Creek Quilt Camp has come to a close, and Bonnie Markham faces a bleak and lonely winter ahead, with her quilt shop out of business and her divorce looming. A...

  • Enchantress of Numbers synopsis, comments

    Enchantress of Numbers

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Switchboard Soldiers illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of LovelaceLord Byron’s daughter and th...

  • The Winding Ways Quilt synopsis, comments

    The Winding Ways Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with The Winding Ways Quilt, in which the arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected jo...

  • The Sugar Camp Quilt synopsis, comments

    The Sugar Camp Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    With Jennifer Chiaverini's trademark historical suspense, The Sugar Camp Quilt blends danger, courage, and romance into a novel of antebellum America.History is thick with secrets ...

  • The Lost Quilter synopsis, comments

    The Lost Quilter

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures an antique quilt called by three names Birds in the Air, after its pattern; the Runaway Quilt, after the woman who sewed it; and ...

  • Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule synopsis, comments

    Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Canary Girls imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady...

  • The Master Quilter synopsis, comments

    The Master Quilter

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    In this heartwarming novel about the meaning of friendship, the Elm Creek quilters pay tribute to their beloved matriarch and the bridal quilt that will be stitched in her honor.Th...

  • Christmas Bells synopsis, comments

    Christmas Bells

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem “Christmas Bells,” by Henry Wadswor...

  • The Christmas Boutique synopsis, comments

    The Christmas Boutique

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with a delightful Christmasthemed installment in her beloved Elm Creek Quilts seriesa captivating, heartwarming tale s...

  • Sonoma Rose synopsis, comments

    Sonoma Rose

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibitionera story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into...

  • The Christmas Quilt synopsis, comments

    The Christmas Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    A heartwarming rendition of how Christmas traditions at Elm Creek Manor were createdand embellishedover generations.When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the ho...