Larry Zuckerman

Larry Zuckerman’s grandparents spoke Yiddish around him whenever they

wished to protect their privacy—and their impassioned, expressive tone made

him want to know what he was missing. In paying homage to their generation

and mother tongue, To Save a Life expresses his love for other times and places.

His previous novel, Lonely Are the Brave (Cennan, 2023), portrays a World War I

hero turned at-home father in a Washington State logging town. Larry’s nonfiction

includes The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World, which

was excerpted in the New York Times and won an award in the United Kingdom,

and The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I, which reflects his

fascination with that tragic era. He has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition with

Renée Montagne and delivered a keynote address at the 2009 World Potato

Congress in Christchurch, New Zealand. He lives in Seattle.