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Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury, England, and educated at Cambridge University and Stanford University in California. His first bestselling novel, Sarum, is based on the history of Salisbury and Stonehenge. Russka, his second novel, recounted the sweeping history of Russia. London tells the two-thousand-year story of the great city, bringing all of the richness of London’s past unforgettably to life. The Forest was set in England's ancient “New Forest.” A former resident of London and New York City, Edward Rutherfurd has had a home in Dublin for more than ten years. He has two children.

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction
 
Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the New York Post

Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant—a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city’s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York’s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village, the arrival of Dutch and British merchants, the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the convulsions of the Civil War, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the 1990s, and the attack on the World Trade Center. A stirring mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, New York: The Novel gloriously captures the search for freedom and opportunity at the heart of our nation’s history.

The Washington Post - Brigitte Weeks

…what makes this novel so entertaining is the riotous, multilayered portrait of a whole metropolis. Rutherfurd offers the reader a chance to watch a rural outcrop grow into one of the world's greatest cities in a mere 350 years. He delivers magnificently on the challenge; it is hard to imagine any other writer combining such astonishing depth of research with the imagination and ingenuity to hold it all together.

Maps

New Amsterdam: 1664 1

New York 50

The Boston Girl: 1735 116

The Philadelphia Girl: 1741 140

Montayne's Tavern: 1758 156

London: 1759 169

Abigail: 1765 187

The Loyalist: 1770 208

The Patriot 234

Vanessa 239

War: March 1776 251

Fire: 1776 275

Love: July 1777 279

The Capital: 1790 343

Niagara: 1825 351

Past Five Points: 1849 363

Crystal Palace: 1853 380

Lincoln: 1860 400

The Draft: 1863 410

Moonlight Sonata: 1871 479

Snow: 1888 496

Old England: 1896 539

Ellis Island: 1901 550

Empire State: 1917 630

Brooklyn: 1953 707

Verrazano Narrows: 1968 757

After Dark: 1977 769

Giving Birth: 1987 792

Millennium 806

The Board Game: September 8, 2001 817

The Towers: September 10, 2001 833

Epilogue: Summer 2009 853

Acknowledgments 861