For the film adaptation of the same name, see Water for Elephants (film).
Water for Elephants
Author
Sara Gruen
Cover artist
Charles Mason
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Historical romance novel
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date
May 26, 2006
Media type
Print
Pages
331 (first edition)
ISBN
1-56512-499-5 (first edition)
OCLC
61362217
Dewey Decimal
813/.6 22
LC Class
PS3607.R696 W38 2006
Water for Elephants is a 2006 historical romance novel by Canadian–American author Sara Gruen. The novel is set in a 20th-century circus. Gruen wrote the book as part of the National Novel Writing Month.[1][2]
A film adaptation was released in 2011, while a stage musical began presentations in 2023 and opened on Broadway in spring 2024.
^"NaNoWriMo Media Kit". Nanowrimo.org. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
^WrimoRadio interview with Sara Gruen, November 29, 2008.[permanent dead link] Interview begins at 3-minute mark. Nanowrimo.org. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
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