The Conversion:
US Publication Spring 2008
UK Publication Summer 2008

The Conversion was chosen as a 2009 "Honor Book" by the American Library Association.

"Olshan's novels are novels of great obsession, of transcendent moments of perfect love set against a backdrop of hovering betrayal and death. He works hard to create a realist texture of both mundane and telling details."
The Guardian (London)

Public Television Interview -Watch here

In the February 2008 issue of "O" Magazine,
Kate Winslet declares Joseph Olshan
to be one of her favorite writers.

Here's what she says about his novel, The Waterline.
"I read the book a long time ago, but one thing
has stayed with me: the way a trauma
in childhood -- though the memory is so
blurred and disjointed -- can affect us deeply
without our even realizing it."