 | Ben
Farmer lives in Maryland, where he was born and
raised. He graduated from Kenyon College as a history major. Since, he has worked as a teacher, an editor, and in a booking agency for musicians. Evangeline is his first novel. |
"Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting."
- Keith Donohue,
author of Angels of Destruction and The Stolen Child
"Majestic and stately as Conrad
Richter's Awakening Land
Trilogy,
Evangeline is a big book from a big mind."
- Katherine Weber,
author of True Confections and Triangle
- Katherine Weber,
author of True Confections and Triangle
"Lovers of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about the
star-crossed lovers, Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lejeunesse,
will relish this engrossing retelling . . . This is historical fiction at its best."
- Ray Saadi, Tri-Parish Times
- Ray Saadi, Tri-Parish Times
- Andrew Armitage, Owen Sound Sun-Times
"Farmer has reinvested this classic adventure tale with plenty of historical detail and character traits that will surely bring it alive for many new readers."
- Eileen Zimmerman Nicol, BookReporter.com
"The book is beautifully written and does a good job of bringing the characters to life. Evangeline is symbolic of the strength of love and of a people's capacity for endurance."
- Sue Asher, Historical Novels Review