Jasmin Darznik is the bestselling author of The Bohemians, a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. A New York Times Book Review summer 2021 recommendation, The Bohemians is also one of Oprah Daily’s best books of historical fiction for 2021.
Darznik’s debut novel, Song of a Captive Bird, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Darznik is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, among others.
Darznik was born in Iran and came to America when she was five years old. She holds an MFA in fiction from Bennington College, a J.D. from the University of California, and a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. She is an associate professor and incoming chair of the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco (2022).
“Our One Book One Community event with Jasmin Darznik was fantastic. Learning about her inspirations and research for The Bohemians was fascinating to our audience. Her presentation was thoughtful and perceptive, while also sometimes humorous. Jasmin had great interaction with our audience during the book signing, lots of good conversations and smiles!” — Vernon One Book, 2023
