Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 26 books. His latest novel, The Amateur, will be published in August. Bohjalian’s work has been translated into 35 languages and adapted into three films—Midwives, Secrets of Eden and Past the Bleachers—as well as the Emmy-winning television series The Flight Attendant, and two of his other novels are currently in development for television. In addition to his fiction, Bohjalian is also a playwright, with stage works including The Club (2024), Midwives (2020) and Grounded (now Wingspan) (2018).
America at 250

‘A Willingness of the Heart’

Editor’s note: This article appeared in the Armenian Weekly’s March 2026 special magazine issue, “America at 250: An Armenian American…

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Literary Corner

The Red Lotus

When my great friend, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, was kind enough to ask me for an excerpt from my new novel,…

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Op-Eds

Bohjalian: Putting a Face on the Refugee Crisis

BURLINGTON, Vt. (Burlington Free Press)—For most of America, the heartbreaking faces of Syrian refugees this year have belonged to children.…

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Featured

Bohjalian: Murder Cannot Be Hid Long. The Truth Will Out.

The Armenian Weekly Magazine April 2015: A Century of Resistance In March I spent three days at “Responsibility 2015,” the…

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Featured

Bohjalian: A Little Hope amidst the Monastery Debris

The other day I watched an eight-year-old boy named Ulash (pronounced Oo-lush) spontaneously take a white plastic grocery bag and…

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Featured

Bohjalian: The boulder’s big, but our children can move it

A child brings two heavy buckets of water into the home of a strange old woman and discovers there a…

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Featured

Bohjalian: Shining a Light on the Shadow of Denial

The Armenian Weekly April 2013 Magazine One night in November 2009, I heard Gerda Weissmann Klein speak in Austin, Texas,…

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Opinion

Bohjalian: Forrest Gump Goes to Beirut

We all have a little Forrest Gump in us. A bit of Leonard Zelig. We’ve all had those moments when,…

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Opinion

500 Years: A Celebration of Ink and Paper and Glue

Special Issue: Celebrating 500 Years of Armenian Printing The Armenian Weekly, Sept. 1, 2012 (Download article in PDF)  No one…

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Culture

The Kernel that Led to ‘The Sandcastle Girls’

The Armenian Weekly Magazine April 2012 Sometimes my novels have positively elephantine gestation periods—and even that, in some cases, is…

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