Chris A. Bohjalian (Armenian: Քրիս Պոհճալեան) is an American novelist and the author of over twenty novels, including Midwives (1997), The Sandcastle Girls (2012), The Guest Room (2016), and The Flight Attendant (2018).

[3][4] Chris Bohjalian graduated from Amherst College summa cum laude, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

[5][6] In Lincoln, Bohjalian began writing weekly columns for the local newspaper and magazine about living in the small town, which had a population of about 975 residents.

The novel focuses on the rural Vermont midwife Sibyl Danforth, who becomes embroiled in a legal battle after one of her patients dies following an emergency Caesarean section.

[11] Bohjalian followed Midwives with the 1998 novel The Law of Similars, about a widower attorney suffering from nameless anxieties who starts dating a woman who practices alternative medicine.

Rosenberg argued that, "unlike its predecessor, it (The Law of Similars) fails to take advantage of Bohjalian's great gift for creating thoughtful fiction featuring characters in whom the reader sustains a lively interest.

[citation needed] In 2008, Bohjalian released Skeletons at the Feast, a love story set in the last six months of World War II in Poland and Germany.

Bohjalian was fascinated by Henatsch's account of her family's trek west ahead of the Soviet Army, but he was not inspired to write a novel from it until 2006 when he read Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, Max Hastings' history of the final years of World War II.

[17] The novel was an enormous commercial and critical success: It was Bohjalian's fifth New York Times bestseller and was selected a "Best Book of the Year" by the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

It's a ghost story that drew comparisons to the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Atwood, Alice Sebold, Stephen King, and Ira Levin.

[19] Oprah Winfrey chose it as a Book of the Week: "This rendering of one of history's greatest (and least known) tragedies is a nuanced, sophisticated portrayal of what it means not only to endure but also to insist on hope".

[20] Since then Bohjalian has written other New York Times bestsellers, including The Light in the Ruins (2013); Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (2014); The Guest Room (2016); The Sleepwalker (2017); and The Flight Attendant (2018).