Jennifer Steil Books in Order

Jennifer Steil is a celebrated author and journalist living in Uzbekistan. Her writing career spans multiple genres, including memoir and fiction. Her novel Exile Music, set for release by Viking in May 2020, delves into the lesser-known story of Austrian Jewish musicians who sought refuge in Bolivia in 1938. This follows her acclaimed novel The Ambassador's Wife, published by Doubleday in 2015, which won the 2013 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Best Novel award and the 2016 Phillip McMath Post Publication book award. The Ambassador's Wife was also a finalist for the Bisexual Book Award and the Lascaux Novel Award, garnering praise from prominent publications. Jennifer's first book, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, a memoir about her time as editor of the Yemen Observer, has received international acclaim and was chosen as one of the year's best travel books by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in 2010.