Whitney Otto
Whitney Otto is the author of five novels and one book of nonfiction. How To Make an American Quilt was a New York Times Best Seller (as well as other bestseller lists), NY Times Notable Book, nominated for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and adapted into a feature film produced by Steven Spielberg. Now You See Her was nominated for an Oregon Book Award, and optioned for film. The Passion Dream Book was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, optioned for a film, and an Oregonian Book Club selection. A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity was a Multnomah County Library selection. Eight Girls Taking Pictures was published by Scribner in November 2012. Her novels have been published in fourteen languages. Her latest book, Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives, is described by Publisher’s Weekly as an “inviting blend of biography and memoir” and examines the lives of eight pioneering women photographers in order to excavate her own writer’s life.
Her work has also appeared in anthologies, magazines and the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Oregonian. In 2006 she had an art exhibition of her shadow boxes at the Littman & White Galleries in Portland, OR.