JOHANNA REISS

BIOGRAPHY I BOOKS I PRESENTATIONS I BOOK ORDERING

Books By Johanna Reiss

9780690851274 The Upstairs Room, hardcover (HarperCollins)

9780064403702 The Upstairs Room, paperback (HarperCollins)

9780064470438 The Upstairs Room, paperback (HarperCollins)

9780595430505 The Journey Back, paperback (iUniverse)

Please note: The Journey Back is available on print-on-demand; see Ms. Reiss's book ordering page)

JOHANNA REISS'S BOOK FOR ADULTS

9781933633558 A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969, hardcover (Melville House) (Available October 2008)

Book Description: For years, Johanna Reiss' American husband, Jim, encouraged her to return to Holland to chronicle the two years, seven months, and one day she had spent hiding from the Nazis in rural Usselo, Holland . In 1969, she finally made the trip. Accompanied by Jim and their two young children, Reiss intended to spend seven weeks researching the book that would eventually become The Upstairs Room, her Newbery Honor winning account of her time hiding in the attic of a farmhouse. But unknown to the millions of people who went on to read her beloved classic, behind the dark and painful story of the book was a still darker tale: Reiss' husband returned to America early and committed suicide at age thirty-seven, leaving no note. For Reiss, an ongoing reckoning with universal tragedy becomes particular: she is forced to reckon, too, with Jim's death-and explain it to her children. Subtle and disturbing, the book is a powerful consideration of memory, violence, and loss, told in a stunning and sparse narrative style.

01/19/08