Scott Simon talks David Ebershoff about his new novel, The 19th Wife. Ebershoff also reflects on his experience editing literary lion Norman Mailer. Spouses often feel taken for granted. Too many even ...

David Ebershoff has had a good year. In April he achieved publishing history—or, at least carved out a footnote—joining elite company as an editor with two Pulitzer Prize–winning books on his list in ...

HAS THERE ever been a more salacious subject than polygamy? The very thought of the harem -- one husband, three or four wives, or in the case of certain Mormon settlers, 15 or 20 -- sets the ...

David Ebershoff has bought a new home on the High Line. (Photo: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for PSIFF) The Academy may have deemed The Danish Girl to be undeserving of a Best Picture nomination, but ...

When David Ebershoff first heard about Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young s 19th wife, he knew there was a book in there somewhere. My writer s ears stood up, he says. Ann Eliza, an intelligent, outspoken ...

The 2013 Pulitzer winners produced the rare feat of two books edited by the same person. David Ebershoff, editor of The Orphan Master's Son and Embers of War, is also an author (his latest book is The ...

Spouses often feel taken for granted. Too many even feel abused. Imagine though, what it would be like to be one of 19 spouses and to feel a bit of both. Does being one of 19 spouses mean that someone ...