BookPage has selected The Escape Artist as a Best Book of 2020:

“When Fremont’s father died and her mother and sister legally excised her from the family, it opened up a lifetime’s worth of secrets, betrayal, trauma and lies. As far as family memoirs go, The Escape Artist is as twisted, insightful and beautifully rendered as they come.”

Wellesley College’s Authors on Stage Program will return for its 40th year with a virtual program. Helen Fremont and two other authors, Emily Nemens and Maggie Doherty, will present their 2020 books, with Lia Hunt Zylstra moderating. Signed books will be available for purchase.

Tuesday, December 8
10:30 am EST

Free, but online reservations are required.  Register here.

Questions? Please email authorsonstage@gmail.com

Check out Helen’s interview on the Boston Book Festival’s Audio on Demand:
Memoirs: Secrets, Lies and the Mysteries of Our Youth

Helen’s interview appears first, followed by Betsy Bonner, and finally Nick Flynn.

Join Helen for a Zoom talk at Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom in Montreal, Quebec, on
“Family Secrets, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust.”
The talk will be followed by a Q & A with the author.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT

Helen will moderate and speak on a panel at the virtual AWP Conference in Kansas City, Kansas on “Betrayed: Writing About Family, Friends, and Loved Ones.”  The panel includes award-winning writers and poets Lynette D’Amico, Lisa Van Orman Hadley, Annie Kim, and Lenore Myka,

March 3-6, 2021
Date and time TBD

The New York Times recommends Helen’s new book, THE ESCAPE ARTIST:

THE ESCAPE ARTIST: A Memoir, by Helen Fremont. (Gallery, 352 pp., $16.99.) Fremont’s previous memoir, revealing that her parents were Jewish rather than Catholic, led her father, who has since died, to update his will and declare her dead. He “metaphorically killed her for it,” our reviewer, Alexandra Styron, reasoned. What’s a writer to do but write another memoir to “understand why”?

Helen will discuss her book The Escape Artist with Congregation Beth Elohim book group – Brooklyn, NY

March, 2021
Date and time TBD

Join Helen for a reading and discussion of her new memoir, The Escape Artist at the Peninsula Public Library.

Peninsula Public Library
280 Central Avenue
Lawrence, NY 11559

1:00 pm EDT

Join Helen for a Zoom discussion of her new book with the Palm Beach JCC.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021
11:30 a.m. EDT

Watch the short YouTube video (under 3 minutes): Author Helen Fremont On Being Disowned and Declared Dead By Her Own Family.

Helen’s essay “Pendulum” was selected as a Finalist in Solstice Literary Magazine’s Annual Contest.  Judged by Megan Marshall.  Read the essay here.

Thank you to the Museum of Jewish Heritage for my book talk with Helen Epstein about THE ESCAPE ARTIST.
Watch the video here.

Helen will be featured as one of the memoirists at the Boston Book Festival 2020 in October.  Stay tuned for her audio interview.

Thank you to The Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon for her podcast and interview of me about THE ESCAPE ARTIST.  Listen to it here:

Read EB Bartels’ review of THE ESCAPE ARTIST in Wellesley Magazine.

“engrossing, complex… a must-read…”