The Season of Migration: A Novel
by Nellie Hermann ’96
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2015
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time, and yet we know very little about the difficult period in his youth when he and his brother, Theo, broke off all contact. In The Season of Migration, Nellie Hermann conjures a profoundly imaginative, original and heartbreaking vision of Van Gogh’s early years. In startlingly beautiful and powerful language, Hermann transforms our understanding of Van Gogh and the redemptive power of art.
Nellie Hermann was born in Boston and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel, The Cure for Grief, was published in 2009. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and has taught and lectured widely on the use of creativity in non-traditional contexts.