Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants
AuthorSara Gruen
Cover artistCharles Mason
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical romance novel
PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date
May 26, 2006
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages331 (first edition)
ISBN1-56512-499-5 (first edition)
OCLC61362217
813/.6 22
LC ClassPS3607.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.

  1. ^ "NaNoWriMo Media Kit". Nanowrimo.org. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
  2. ^ WrimoRadio interview with Sara Gruen, November 29, 2008.[permanent dead link] Interview begins at 3-minute mark. Nanowrimo.org. Retrieved March 20, 2011.