Author

Robert Hellenga

1 award win, 0 nominations across 1 book.

American novelist, essayist, and short story author.

Cover of The Sixteen Pleasures

The Sixteen Pleasures

1 Award Won

Published 1995-05-01 · 368 pages

The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art from the Arno's flooded banks. American volunteer Margot Harrington was one of them, finding her niche in the waterlogged library of a Carmelite convent.

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