Testimonial Demos

Beautiful Assassin…is a superb 1940s drama…a winner that condemns nations for their expendable deployment of individuals.
Harriet Klausner

This miscarriage of justice is the subject of a riveting new novel called The Garden of Martyrs by Michael C. White.
Irish America Magazine
The Garden of Martyrs is a meticulously researched and richly drawn portrait of the lives of two Irish-Catholic immigrants and their priest. Michael C. White has delivered a historical novel of lasting contemporary resonance.
A Manette Ansay
Michael White’s new novel The Garden of Martyrs, is everything a historical novel, or any novel, should be—rich in its characters and setting, compelling in its drama, and utterly true in its emotions and ideology.
Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire Falls

Awards

2015 Winner, $5000 National Tuscany Prize for the Novel, Resting Places (pub. date: March 1, 2016)

2011 Winner, Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, Beautiful Assassin

2008 Finalist, Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, Soul Catcher

Historical Novels Review Editor’s Selection, August 2007

Booksense Editor’s Selection, Sept. 2007

Awarded writing fellowship at Eastern Frontier Society, Maine, 2006

Founding Editor of American Fiction (ranked as 13^th best fiction market-Writers’ Digest)

2005 Finalist, Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, The Garden of Martyrs

Awarded month-long writing fellowship at Eastern Frontier Society, Maine, 2002

First Prize–Advocate Newspapers 1996 Fiction Award for “Nights”

Nominated-Pushcart Prize-”Heights” (story)

Nominated-National Magazine Award for “Ray’s Shoes” (story)

The Blind Side of the Heart selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club

A Dream of Wolves, starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist

First Prize-1988 Permafrost Award

Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection

New York Times Notable Book Selection 1996

Finalist-Edgar Award 1997

Finalist-New England Booksellers Association Award 1997

Michael C. White