Sarah Price: Amish Culture

Sarah Price grew up with close relationships with Mennonite families and has a deep respect for their values and practices. She will discuss aspects of their lifestyle, like their attitude toward technology, their approach to bringing up children, and how they deal with the outside world. Price is a former professor of marketing and prolific author known for her line of Amish romance novels and many others. A Morristown resident, Price self-published her first book, Fields of Corn, in 2009. She had written the book thirty years earlier while studying anthropology and writing at Drew University (Madison, NJ). With her Anabaptist upbringing, she was drawn to the amazing culture of the Amish of Lancaster County where she is heavily involved with numerous Amish communities. There she is considered family by some and friend by most others. Fields of Corn became an Amazon bestseller and fans began asking her for more books. In 2013, she signed with Realms, a division of Charisma House, to publish the Amish Classics series. Initially focusing on the retelling of Jane Austen’s timeless classics from within an Amish setting, her first traditionally published book, First Impressions, A Retelling of Pride & Prejudice, debuted on the ECPA bestseller list. She intends to continue retelling classics, including the Bronte sisters and Victor Hugo, as she enjoys “raising the bar” on her own intellectual stimulation as well as that of her expansive base of loyal readers. In 2014, she signed with Waterfall Press and published An Amish Buggy Ride, which became a #1 bestseller in Religious Romance. [photo]