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Elena Graf

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Born

in New York, The United States

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Genre

Historical Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Contemporary

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20th century masters Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway. Popular writer ...more

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Award-winning novelist Elena Graf has been scribbling stories since high school. Her first novel, Occasions of Sin was published in 2012. She considers herself primarily a historical novelist, but she is probably best known for the contemporary Hobbs series, featuring a group of middle-aged women living in a small town in Maine.

The novels in the Passing Rites series are set in Europe in the early 20th century and show how a noble family dealt with the momentous changes of the period. Two volumes in the series won both Golden Crown Literary Society and Rainbow Awards for historical fiction.

Elena Graf pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy and often explores difficult moral situations in her fiction. She ended up in the “accidental profession” of pub ...more

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Average rating: 4.49 · 2,221 ratings · 492 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	High October (Hobbs, #1) 4.24 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is My Body (Hobbs, #2) 4.41 avg rating — 216 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occasions of Sin (Passing Rites, #2) 4.48 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of Corona (Hobbs, #3) 4.53 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirsty Thursdays (Hobbs, #4) 4.45 avg rating — 136 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Winter (Hobbs, #5) 4.59 avg rating — 123 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strands (Hobbs #7) 4.58 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer People (Hobbs, #6) 4.54 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The More The Merrier (Hobbs, #1.5) 4.38 avg rating — 111 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rector's Wedding (Hobbs, #8) 4.57 avg rating — 103 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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"I wish she'd leave out the politics," wrote one reviewer. I get it. No one looking to be entertained wants to read a sermon instead. But I just finished writing a new book, Strands, in which the story turns on whether the characters can marry. Some of the noises from the U.S. Supreme Court, notably decisions regarding abortion, make me worry that the right of same sex couples to marry may be in d Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Elena Graf

Hobbs (12 books)
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Passing Rites (4 books)
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

by Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)

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Tempting Olivia (Oxford Romance Book 2)

by Clare Ashton (Goodreads Author)

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The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

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“So, while she innocently sang devout words in the convent chapel, I was very deliberately plotting my way into her vagina.”
― Elena Graf, Acts of Contrition

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“For a woman who took such pride in self-control, she was so damn easy to seduce.”
― Elena Graf, Acts of Contrition

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“The greater the risk, the more delicious the triumph.”
― Elena Graf, Lies of Omission

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“The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job . . . The rest is automatic. You don’t need to lift a finger. The machine is in perfect order; it has been oiled ever since time began, and it runs without friction . . . Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless . . . In a tragedy, nothing is in doubt and everyone’s destiny is known. That makes for tranquility . . . Tragedy is restful; and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. There isn’t any hope. You’re trapped.”
― Jean Anouilh, Antigone

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