Andrea Kleine is an American writer, choreographer, and performance artist. She is the author of the novel, ''Calf'', a fictionalized account of the

John Hinckley Jr. John Warnock Hinckley Jr. (born May 29, 1955) is an American man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981, two months after Reagan's first inauguration. Using a .22 caliber revolver, Hinck ...

story published by

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Soft Skull Press Counterpoint LLC was a publishing company distributed by Perseus Books Group launched in 2007. It was formed from the consolidation of three presses: Perseus' Counterpoint Press, Avalon Publishing Group's Shoemaker & Hoard and the independent So ...

. Her second novel, ''Eden'', was published by

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in 2018.

Novel

Kleine’s debut novel, ''Calf'', fictionalizes the story of

, who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, and the story of Leslie deVeau, a Washington, DC woman who murdered her 10-year-old daughter, and later met Hinckley while both were at St Elizabeths Hospital. Kleine was a childhood friend of deVeau's daughter. Hinckley and deVeau became romantically involved and were briefly engaged.

Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of B ...

reviewed ''Calf'' saying, “dread stalks every page and the result is unsettling, scary, and often brilliant.” Kleine was named one of Publishers Weekly’s “Writers to Watch” and ''Calf'' was listed as one of their “Best Books of 2015.” Reviewing ''Calf'' for the

Dallas Morning News ''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the ''Galvesto ...

, David Duhr wrote “In matching the alienation of the Reagan ’80s with the shocking violence that touched her own young life, Kleine has created a dark and memorable novel bound to upend a reader’s expectations.” National Post of Canada reviewed ''Calf'' saying, "the reader draws pleasure from Kleine's accuracy of portrayal, her psychological astuteness." Book Riot reviewed ''Calf'' calling it “a breathtaking book.”

Choreography and performance work

Kleine worked as a choreographer and performance artist from the 1990s until she abruptly stopped performing in 2003. She returned to performing in 2014 with the piece ''Screening Room, or, The Return of Andrea Kleine (as revealed through re-enactment of a ‘long and baffling’ film by Yvonne Rainer)''. In the piece, Kleine plays the post-modern choreographer and filmmaker

Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

as a way of looking at her own life.

Bibliography

Calf, a novel
Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press, 2015, *''Eden'', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018,

References

External links

Author Website

Interview with Style Weekly

Interview with Otherppl

Interview with Culturebot

Interview with A bras le Corps

Interview with Los Angeles Review of Books
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