I write about psychology and relationships, love and resiliency, in novels, memoirs, and non-fiction. History informs all of it, either through deep research in libraries and archives or by way of memory and imagination.


I Am Sick
There’s no vaccine for the kind of Corona in me. My lungs, brain, blood and muscles have not (yet) been occupied by 19. But all


The Crown
The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit, and other historical dramas Like many of us, COVID has left me starved for social stimulation. And to ameliorate that


A Novel About Attachment
In my dream, my old mother is crying. And her crying makes me cry. We are both crying. When my mother died in the last
Jane Gerhard writes about psychology and relationships, love and resiliency, dementia, anorexia and primates, in novels, memoirs and essays. History informs it all, either through deep research in libraries and archives or by way of memory and imagination.