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Jennifer Vanderbes is an American novelist. She is best known for her debut novel Easter Island, which received positive reviews from The Washington Post Book World, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor, and was translated into sixteen languages. The novel mixes together adventure, mystery, and romance in several plotlines. Each of the novel's different plotlines is linked to Easter Island, the remote South Pacific island famed for its immense Moai. Easter Island was named one of the best books of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post.
Vanderbes is also author to the novel Strangers at the Feast. The novel, set on Thanksgiving Day 2007, depicts two families, one white and one black, connected by a horrific crime. Oprah Magazine called it "a thriller that also raises large and haunting questions about the meaning of guilt, innocence, and justice," and best-selling author Justin Cronin said, "This is a book that dares to ask: What went wrong, and right, in America?...Strangers at the Feast is more than a great novel. It's an important one."
A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Vanderbes is a New York native and a former Colgate University faculty member. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Public Library Cullman Fellowship. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Best New American Voices 2000. She lives in New York City.
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