John Shors
http://johnshors.com
After graduating from Colorado College, John Shors lived for
several years in Kyoto, Japan, where he taught English. On a
shoestring budget, he later trekked across Asia, visiting
ten countries and climbing the Himalayas. After returning to
the United States, he became a newspaper reporter in his
hometown, Des Moines, Iowa, winning several statewide awards
in journalism. John then moved to Boulder, Colorado, and
helped launch GroundFloor Media, now one of the state's
largest public relations firms.
John has been lucky enough to spend much of his life abroad,
traveling in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, Africa, and
North America. Now a full-time novelist, John spends his
days writing and going on family outings with his wife,
Allison, and their two young children, Sophie and Jack.
John's first two novels, Beneath
a Marble Sky, and Beside a Burning Sea, have won multiple
awards, and have been translated into more than twenty
languages.
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Books
The Wishing Trees
September 7, 2010
From “master storyteller”* John Shors,
bestselling author of Beneath a Marble Sky, comes a
remarkable novel about a father and daughter on a
life-changing journey they never intended to take....
Almost a year Read more...
Dragon House
September 1, 2009
Set in modern-day Vietnam, Dragon House tells the
tale of Iris and Noah—two Americans who, as a way of
healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and
educate Vietnamese street Read more...
Beside a Burning Sea
September 2, 2008
From the author of Beneath a Marble Sky comes an
inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different
worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they
struggle Read more...
Beneath a Marble Sky
June 6, 2006
A "passionate, lush, and dramatic" debut novel that
recounts the making of the Taj Mahal—and the
destruction of a royal family...
Journey to dazzling seventeenth-century Hindustan, where the
reigning emperor, consumed with grief over Read more...
Beneath a Marble Sky
May 21, 2004
In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed
with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz
Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to
symbolize the Read more...
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