Viola Shipman

The St. Louis County Library Foundation and Left Bank Books Present Award-Winning Novelist Viola Shipman

 
Author of “The Page Turner” 
 

Viola Shipman is the pen name for award-winning author Wade Rouse, who writes fiction under his grandmother’s name to honor the woman who inspired his writing. Bursting with memorable characters, the latest Viola Shipman novel follows a young romance writer’s journey of self-discovery. Emma Page grew up the black sheep in a bookish household. Her parents, self-proclaimed “serious” authors, mingle in highbrow social circles that look down on anything too popular or mainstream. Hiding her own romance manuscript from her disapproving parents, Emma finds inspiration at the family cottage among the “fluff” they despise: the juicy summer romances that belonged to her late grandmother. 

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