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“Austin Ratner's THE JUMP ARTIST is a beautifully scrupulous, intricately detailed novel about Philippe Halsman, the great photographer, and the accusation of murder lodged against him by some of the budding devils of Austrian fascism during the rise of the Nazis. This is a book about joy and despair, anti-Semitism and assimilation, and like a great photograph, it seems to miss nothing, and to catch its subject in all his complexity.”
–Charles Baxter
Austin Ratner’s first novel, The Jump Artist, is now available. It was recently named one of ten promising debut novels of 2009 by Publishers Weekly. His short fiction has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, among others. He attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and before turning to writing he received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is co-author of the textbook Concepts in Medical Physiology, which is used at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere.
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THE JUMP ARTIST was recently featured in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY as one of ten promising debut novels of 2009. Click here to read more about it.
