Jill Kandel

Jill Kandel is a Fargo-based memoirist and former nurse. Her memoir The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir (North Dakota State University Press, 2022) explores her relationship with her Dutch father-in-law, who died by legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands. The book draws on letters and her research in the Netherlands into his childhood during the Nazi occupation. She began writing at forty and has won the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize and the Sarton Women's Literary Award.