Nora Whitfield

Nora Whitfield

Novels about the spaces between people — the silences, the distances, and the bridges we build to cross them.

Books
The Distance Between Stars
Nora Whitfield

The Distance Between Stars

2025 · Knopf

A novel about two astronomers whose search for a signal from deep space mirrors their inability to communicate with each other.

Salt & Ceremony
Nora Whitfield

Salt & Ceremony

2022 · FSG

Three generations of a Sicilian-American family, told through the recipes they keep and the secrets they don't.

The Cartographer's Daughter
Nora Whitfield

The Cartographer's Daughter

2019 · Penguin

A debut novel about a woman who inherits her father's obsession with mapping a coastline that keeps shifting.

Press
“Whitfield writes with the precision of a poet and the patience of a geologist. Her sentences feel inevitable.”
The New York Times Book Review
“A stunning meditation on family, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Utterly unforgettable.”
The Guardian
“Salt & Ceremony is the rare novel that makes you taste every page. Whitfield is a master of sensory detail.”
NPR Books
“One of the most exciting literary voices to emerge this decade. Every book is a revelation.”
Paris Review
Nora Whitfield

About Nora

Nora Whitfield is the author of three novels, most recently The Distance Between Stars (Knopf, 2025). Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and adapted for stage and screen.

She is the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a National Book Award finalist, and a MacDowell fellow. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Paris Review.

Nora lives in coastal Maine with her partner and two unreasonable cats. She teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College and is at work on her fourth novel.

For speaking engagements, press inquiries, and book club visits, please contact her agent at agent@example.com.

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