Maria Hummel

Maria Hummel is an American writer. Her poetry collection, House and Fire, was winner of the 2013 APR/Hickman First Book Prize. She has written five novels: Goldenseal (Counterpoint, 2024), Lesson in Red (Counterpoint, 2021), Still Lives (Counterpoint, 2018), Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) and Wilderness Run (St. Martin's, 2003).[1]

For the German Franciscan sister and artist, see Maria Innocentia Hummel.

Still Lives was the August 2018 pick for the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine book club.[2] Paula L. Woods (Los Angeles Times) called the book "a stunning achievement for a writer who perfectly captures an outsider’s ambivalence about the city’s pluses and minuses, and most notably its sensational crimes and the dark angels we make of its victims."[3]

Publishers Weekly gave Hummel's novel, Motherland, a starred review and wrote that "Fear, grief, and the will to survive fuse in this beautiful novel about the inner life of a German family in the final months of World War II...."[4] People wrote that Motherland is "searing and honest, her book illuminates the reality of war away from the front lines ... with a compassion and depth of understanding that will touch your heart.[5]

Hummel was a Wallace Stegner fellow from 2005 to 2007 at Stanford University, and a Jones Lecturer there from 2009 to 2016. Since 2016, she has taught in the English department at the University of Vermont.[6]

Works
  • Wilderness Run, St Martin's Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0312287573
  • Motherland, Counterpoint, 2014, ISBN 978-1619022379
  • Still Lives, Counterpoint, 2018, ISBN 978-1619021112
  • Lesson in Red, Counterpoint, 2021, ISBN 978-1640094314
  • Goldenseal, Counterpoint, 2024, ISBN 978-1640096066

References
  1. "Maria Hummel". Poetry Foundation.
  2. "Why Reese Witherspoon's new Book Club pick may be her boldest choice yet". EW.com. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  3. Woods, Paula L. (2018-06-29). "The L.A. art scene is the setting for the mystery 'Still Lives' by Maria Hummel". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  4. "Motherland". Publishers Weekly.
  5. Rogan, Helen; Westfall, Sandra; Jordan, Julie (January 27, 2014). "Picks and Pans Main: Books". People.
  6. "Maria Hummel" (PDF). University of Vermont.


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