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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, was heralded as “a remarkable work” by Harper’s Magazine and named one of ten promising debuts of 2009 by Publishers Weekly.  His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction.  He attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  Before turning to writing he received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and he is co-author of the textbook Concepts in Medical Physiology, which is used at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere.

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“This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man’s life as a Halsman photograph of a pretty young woman.”

                                                                  –GQ

“A remarkable work ... [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity.”

                                       –Harper’s Magazine