Cathleen Schine (born 1953) is an American novelist.
Her first book was ''Alice in Bed'' (1983), which was followed by ''To the Birdhouse'' (1990), ''Rameau's Niece'' (1993), ''The Love Letter'' (1995) and ''The Evolution of Jane'' (1998). ''
The Love Letter'' was filmed in 1999. ''Rameau's Niece'' was filmed as ''
The Misadventures of Margaret
''The Misadventures of Margaret'' is a 1998 French-British romantic comedy film directed by Brian Skeet and starring Parker Posey, Jeremy Northam and Craig Chester. It was based on the novel '' Rameau's Niece'' by Cathleen Schine. The film is a ...
'' starring
Parker Posey
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. ''She Is Me'' was released in 2003 and ''The New Yorkers'' in early 2007. Her novel ''The Three Weissmanns of Westport,'' published in February 2010, was dubbed "compulsively readable" by ''Publishers Weekly''. ''Fin & Lady'' was published in 2013.
Schine also wrote a Sunday Serial for ''
The New York Times Sunday Magazine
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'', ''The Dead and the Naked'', which ran beginning September 9, 2007, and was published in Italy as "Miss S." One character, Miss Skattergoods, also appears in ''The Love Letter''.
Schine's work appears frequently in ''
The New York Review of Books
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'', ''
The New Yorker
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'' and other publications. Her essay "Dog Trouble", which was originally published in The New Yorker, was included in ''The Best American Essays of 2005''. A humor piece, "Save Our Bus Herds", was included in the anthology "Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing From The New Yorker." Her novel ''They May Not Mean To, But They Do,'' published in 2016, won the 2016 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction.
Her most recent novel is ''The Grammarians'' (2019).
Reviewer Leah Rozen in ''
People
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'' magazine dubbed her "a modern-day Jewish
Jane Austen
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."
Her ex-husband is the ''
New Yorker
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'' film critic
David Denby
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Early life and education
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.
Schine now lives in Venice, California with her wife, Janet Meyers.
Bibliography
* ''Alice in Bed'' (1983)
* ''To the Birdhouse'' (1990)
* ''Rameau's Niece'' (1993)
* ''The Love Letter'' (1995)
* ''The Evolution of Jane'' (1998)
* ''She is Me'' (2001)
* ''The New Yorkers'' (2007)
* ''The Three Weissmanns of Westport'' (2010)
* ''Fin and Lady'' (2013)
* ''They May Not Mean To, But They Do'' (2016)
* ''The Grammarians'' (2019)
Articles
"Dog Trouble"- ''The New Yorker''
"Save our Bus Herds"- ''The New Yorker''
"'The Trump Castle,' a Novel"- ''The New York Times''
"CHILDREN'S BOOKS; AMERICA AS FAIRYLAND"- ''The New York Times''
"ENDPAPER; How Do I Join"- ''The New York Times''
"ENDPAPER; Spiro Agnew and I"- ''The New York Times''
"ENDPAPER; The 13th Sign"- ''The New York Times''
"ENDPAPER; Unwanted Poem Tendencies"- ''The New York Times''
"FLOOR WARS"- ''The New York Times''
"FROM LASSIE TO PEE-WEE"- ''The New York Times''
"GUEST OBSERVER; A Time for Watches"- ''The New York Times''
"Status is ... for Manhattan Parents; A Kid Who Curls Up With the Classics"- ''The New York Times''
"The Way We Live Now: 7-4-99: Urban Diarist; Tanning and Authenticity"- ''The New York Times''
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References
External links
Author websiteSchine author page and archive
from ''The New York Review of Books''
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20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
Living people
1953 births
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
American LGBT writers
21st-century LGBT people