Works by
David Ebershoff
(Writer)

The Danish Girl: A Novel (2000) -- Winner 2000 Lambda Literary Awards for Transgender/Bisexual; Winner Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lion’s Award
Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women's shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.

Note:  Playwright and director Neil LaBute and producer Gail Mutrux are adapting the novel for the screen.

The Rose City: Stories (2001) -- Winner Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award; Finalist of the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Male Fiction
Written with understanding and familiarity, these seven stories present characters who are coming into their own as they discover and rediscover themselves. In "Chuck Paa," a young man in flight from his mother seeks and finds employment in an upscale world, which can never quite become his own. The title story, "The Rose City," tells how a shared lost love brings together two friends who reunite to reflect on their past, their present, and what lies ahead. With the same insight and daring of The Danish Girl, The Rose City secures David Ebershoff's reputation as a writer of rare talent and sensitivity.

Pasadena: A Novel (2002)
From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda’s father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda’s adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.

The 19th Wife (2008 release)
A novel about polygaymy in the 19th century and today -- tells the story of Ann Eliza Young, the last wife of Brigham Young.