The author of the book ‘Prelude’ is B.J. Hoff. ‘Prelude’ is the 1st book in the American Anthem series. The story will take you to 19th-century New York. Through the book, you will meet a brooding blind musician and his sympathetic sister-in-law as well as an unlikely pair of medical partners and a struggling immigrant family. The book is a historical fiction. Through the book, you can think about nineteenth-century America in detail.