Marisa Silver
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Marisa Silver (April 23, 1960 - ) is an American contemporary female writer, screenplay writer and film director.
Marisa Silver was born in Shaker Heights, New Jersey, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director.
Marisa Silver has directed her first film Old Enough at the age of 23 when she studied in Harvard University. The first movie she directed, Old Enough, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984, when Silver was just 23. (This was before Sundance was Sundance," she says. "It was just 20 people coming to ski and watch movies.") The movie went on to Cannes, and Silver went on to direct three more feature films, including Permanent Record (1988), with Keanu Reeves, and He Said, She Said (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Sharon Stone.
After making her career in Hollywood, she decided to switch her profession and entered the graduate school to become a short story writer. Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2006 and after that two more stories were published there.
Marisa Silver is the author of books Babe in Paradise (2001).[1] That collection was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. A story from the collection was included in The Best American Short Stories 2000. In 2005, W. W. Norton & Company published her novel, No Direction Home.[2] Her latest novel, The God of War, will be published in April 2008 by Simon & Schuster.
The major topic of Marisa Silver's stories is loneliness.
[edit] References
- ^ Veale, Scott. "New & Noteworthy Paperbacks", The New York Times, October 6, 2002. Accessed March 16, 2008.
- ^ McKenzie, Elizabeth. "'No Direction Home': Random Family", The New York Times, August 14, 2005. Accessed March 16, 2008.
