George Howe Colt

Photograph by Ellen M. Augarten

About The Author

George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Brothers; November of the Soul; and The Game. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Anne Fadiman.

Series by the Author

Books by George Howe Colt

Brothers

On His Brothers and Brothers in History

By George Howe Colt
G E O R G E H OW E C O L T ’ S The Big House is, as the New Yorker said, “full of surprises and contains more than seems possible: a family memoir, a brief history of the Cape, an investigation of nostalgia, a study of class, and a meditation on the privileges and burdens of the...
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The Big House

A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

By George Howe Colt
A National Book Award Finalist | A New York Times Notable Book

Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer home on Cape Cod, where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning mu...
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