Ben Farmer lives in Maryland, where he was born and raised. He graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in history and has worked as a teacher, an editor and in a booking agency for musicians. Evangeline was his first novel, published by Overlook.
A brilliant debut novel of an epic love story and harrowing journey from Nova Scotia to New Orleans in pre-Revolutionary America. Inspired by Longfellow’s epic poem, “Evangeline” is a brilliant novel by Ben Farmer. As the British drive the French out of mid- eighteenth century Acadia (present day Nova Scotia), the …