Denise Giardina - recipient of the 2007 Hilldale Award for Fiction - has published the novels Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, and The Unquiet Earth, which explores Union activities in the mine-fields of West Virginia from the 1930s into the 1990s. Giardina's most recent work, Saints and Villians, is a fictionalized biography of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor who became involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Giardina lives near Charleston and teaches at West Virginia State University.Denise Giardina
Denise Giardina - recipient of the 2007 Hilldale Award for Fiction - has published the novels Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, and The Unquiet Earth, which explores Union activities in the mine-fields of West Virginia from the 1930s into the 1990s. Giardina's most recent work, Saints and Villians, is a fictionalized biography of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor who became involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Giardina lives near Charleston and teaches at West Virginia State University.