Ron Hansen is the author of 10 novels --- including MARIETTE IN ECSTASY, DESPERADOES and A WILD SURGE OF GUILTY PASSION --- and two short story collections, among them SHE LOVES ME NOT. His novel THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha and went on to the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California.

Books by Ron Hansen

Hitler's Niece

by Ron Hansen

Hitler's Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler's apartment in Munich.

Atticus

by Ron Hansen

Mariette in Ecstasy: A Novel

by Ron Hansen