Imagine an alternate reality—where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka—all lived longer lives—wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school—one of which changed history—and lived happily ever after with someone of the same gender. Get a cup of tea, turn off your phone, and let’s travel to this other world!
Eli Andrew Ramer is the author of several books from Wipf and Stock including
Ever After, a queer extension of the lives of 11 famous writers,
Revelations for a New Millennium, and five books of Jewish stories:
Texting with Angels,
Queering the Text,
Torah Told Different,
Deathless, and
Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud. He's a co-author of the international best seller
Ask Your Angels and the author of
Angel Answers. An ordained maggid (sacred storyteller in the Jewish tradition) he lives in Oakland, California up the street from an amusement park called Fairyland. For more information on his writing and teaching please visit his website -
www.andrewramer.com