John Thorndike (born November 6, 1942, in New York City) is an American writer.
He grew up in Westport, Connecticut, graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1960, and from Harvard in 1964, took an MA in English from Columbia in 1966, and spent two years in El Salvador in the Peace Corps.
[1] His first book was the novel Anna Delaney’s Child, about a woman whose nine-year-old son dies in a car crash.
Thorndike’s third book was a memoir, Another Way Home, about raising his son after his wife became schizophrenic.
It's a historical novel that opens in 1959 in Havana, where a young American photographer must choose between her stable Cuban husband and her first love, Camilo Cienfuegos, the father of her child and now a hero of the Cuban Revolution.