Good fiction does more than tell a story. It gives the gift of experience.

Helen Hudson

Helen Hudson is the critically acclaimed author of: Tell the Time to None, Meyer Meyer, The Listener, Farnsbee South, Temporary Residence and Criminal Trespass. All these works of fiction reflect her lifelong concern with social justice and responsibility.


  Night Voices

Night Voices is a non-fiction collection of interviews with people Helen Hudson met while volunteering at a soup kitchen in her home town, Dinner At Six: Voices from the Soup Kitchen. Please check out the Wildfire website.

Praise for Helen Hudson's previous books:

"...a brilliant, wittey writer.... her insights, her similes and metaphors gleam like knife blades in the sun." -Newsweek

"A superior writer...Miss Hudson has Charlie Chaplin's magic way of provoking derision, sympathy, exasperation and curiosity all witht he same gester." -The New Yorker

"Miss Hudson is a gifted writer... her pliant style and warmth for her characters are uncommon virtures." -The New York Times Book Review

"Her touch is light, whenever we come close to weeping, she saves us with her laughter." -Look

"A fine and sensitive writer." -Publishers Weekly

"Criminal Tresspass explores with accuracy, loneliness, racism, ignorance, the will to learn and the ability to love with extraordinary tenderness... enough emotional torque to move any reader." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

Tell the Time to None is a novel admirabley wroghtu and richly satisfying. The luminescent prose moves like a soft but searchin light..." -Chicago Tribune

 

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