Award-winning Memoir: How We Survive Here: Families Across Time (2018). The discovery of 19th-century letters propels Claire Gebben on a challenging quest spanning two centuries and five generations, weaving together a compelling memoir of how we strive to survive.

“A beautiful meditation on the importance of paying attention to the past.” — Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN USA Award and the Milkweed National Fiction Prize

HOW WE SURVIVE HERE: FAMILIES ACROSS TIME
honored as a 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist.

 

Historical fiction:The Last Of The Blacksmiths: A Novel (Coffeetown Press, 2014). A 19th-century blacksmith from the Bavarian Rhinelands travels to Cleveland, Ohio to pursue the American dream.

“The writing quality is superb, the historical and geographic detail utterly convincing, the characters well-drawn, and the dialogue persuasive. … Claire Gebben’s prose is quite brilliant. I fully lived within her world.” William Dietrich, Pulitzer-Prize winning author