A woman in a plaid dress smiles while wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat with a black band. Background shows various colorful hats on display in a shop.

Allegra Goodman

Allegra Goodman’s novels include Isola, Sam (a Read With Jenna Book Club selection), The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.  She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass.