Into the Unbounded Night by Mitchell James Kaplan

By Fire, By Water received numerous awards and accolades including the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for Historical Fiction, the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Bronze Medal for Historical Fiction, an Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in the General Fiction category, and the Adelina Della Pergola Students' Choice Prize for the Italian edition. He was honored as one of the six up-and-coming authors in the “First Author, First Book” program at the 2010 American Library Association conference in Washington, DC. By Fire, By Water was a Book Club selection of the Jewish Book Council and Kaplan was invited to speak in venues throughout the United States, Mexico, and Italy. Kaplan spent six years writing his first novel, By Fire, By Water, which was published by Other Press in 2010. He returned to California in 1986, where he and his wife worked in the film industry as script doctors and wrote several screenplays of their own. įollowing time at Yale University, Kaplan spent four years in France, where he worked as a translator. Mitchell James Kaplan attended The Cate School, a boarding preparatory high school near Santa Barbara, California. He has also written book reviews and literary commentaries for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. By Fire, By Water won the 2011 Independent Publishers Award Gold Medal for Historical Fiction.

He has published three fiction novels: By Fire, By Water, Into the Unbounded Night, and Rhapsody. Mitchell James Kaplan is an American author. 2011 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (BOTYA) Bronze Medal.

Into the Unbounded Night by Mitchell James Kaplan