David Ebershoff is an American writer, editor, and teacher. His novels include The Danish Girl, his debut, a work of historical fiction later adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 2015, and The 19th Wife, his third novel, which moves between nineteenth-century Utah and the present day, following a plural wife of Brigham Young and a murder within a polygamist family. The 19th Wife was also adapted into a television movie in 2010.
