Dani Shapiro
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Dani Shapiro is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion. She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker and ELLE.[1]
Shapiro attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she was influenced by having Grace Paley as a teacher.[2] Shapiro has also written for the screen, having adapted Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince for HBO in 1999. In 2000, she co-wrote a screenplay based on her memoir, Slow Motion, with her husband, journalist and screenwriter Michael Maren.[3] She is currently a professor of creative writing at Wesleyan University and was previously an instructor at The New School and Columbia University.[4]
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- Playing with Fire (1990)
- Fugitive Blue (1993)
- Picturing the Wreck (1996)
- Slow Motion: A True Story (1998)
- Family History (2003)
- Black & White (2007)
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