In Episode 14 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Samantha Hunt about her latest work, The Unwritten Book.
Samantha Hunt is the author of five books: The Seas, about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, a collection of short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; The Invention of Everything Else, about inventor Nikola Tesla; and, most recently, The Unwritten Book, a non-fiction investigation into our relationships with the dead. Samantha is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, and the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and she was a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. She is mother to three and sister to five, a gardener, a beekeeper, a wild swimmer, a singer, a walker, and a forest enthusiast living in New York’s Hudson Valley.
In this interview, Samantha talks about her writing process; hauntings; how she managed to get a blurb from Charlotte Bronte; and much, much more…