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Maria Hummel

Maria Hummel is the author of five novels, including Goldenseal, longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates prize, and Still Lives, a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine pick, a Book of the Month Club pick, and BBC Culture Best Book of 2018. She is working on a novelization of the life of Dorothea Viehmann, “the fairy tale woman from Zwehrn,” who told the Grimms more than forty tales.

How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

Maria Hummel on the Contemporary Echoes of a 19th Century Power Struggle Between Professors, Students, and the State

May 28, 2025 By Maria Hummel

The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

Maria Hummel Recommends Karen Tei Yamashita, Cristina García, Bohumil Hrabal, and More

January 10, 2024 By Maria Hummel

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