Dani Shapiro
| Dani Shapiro | |
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 at Fall for the Book, 2014 | |
| Born |
April 10, 1962 New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Michael Maren |
| Children | 1 |
Daneile Joyce "Dani" Shapiro is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoirs Slow Motion and Devotion. She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and ELLE.[1]
Life
Shapiro attended the Pingry School, a prep school in New Jersey,[2] then Sarah Lawrence College, where she was influenced by Grace Paley, who was one of her teachers.[3] 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. She has been a professor of creative writing at Wesleyan University and an instructor at the New School and Columbia University.[4][5]
In a 2011 interview with the Jewish Ledger, Shapiro described being raised in a family with an Orthodox Jewish father and a mother from South Jersey who had grown up in a non-Orthodox home. Her parents agreed to observe Judaism and Shapiro attended a Solomon Schechter Jewish day school through 6th grade. After moving from New York City to Connecticut in her 40s, Shapiro recounts her "vestigial feeling" connecting her to Judaism were reawakened and that she "could no more reject my Judaism than reject being female, or being a mother, or a wife, or a writer, or any of the things that most define me".[6]
On October 20, 2013 she appeared on Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday on Winfrey's OWN to discuss her book Devotion.
Since 1997 she has been married to screenwriter Michael Maren. They have one child.
Books
| Library resources about Dani Shapiro |
| By Dani Shapiro |
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- Playing with Fire Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990, ISBN 9780385267229
- Fugitive Blue Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated, 1997, ISBN 9780831791063
- Picturing the Wreck Plume, 1996, ISBN 9780452277694
- Slow Motion: A True Story. Random House Publishing Group. 1998. ISBN 978-0-307-82800-2.
- Family History: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2003. ISBN 978-0-307-42585-0.
- Dani Shapiro (2007). Black & White. Random House Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4000-3212-9.
- Devotion: A Memoir. HarperCollins. 26 January 2010. ISBN 978-0-06-162834-4.
- Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life. Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. 1 October 2013. ISBN 978-0-8021-9343-8.
References
- ↑ Barnes & Noble Interview & Writer Details
- ↑ Staff. "Dani Shapiro Is Married to Dan Mitchell Storper", The New York Times, August 24, 1981. Accessed February 11, 2011.
- ↑ Danaroc.com Interview
- ↑ Powell's Books - About the Author
- ↑ Shapiro, Dani (15 June 2011). "#amwriting". NPlusOne. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ↑ Mindell, Cindy. "Q & A: Author Dani Shapiro", Jewish Ledger, January 12, 2011. Accessed February 11, 2011.
External links
- Official Website
- Internet Movie Database Bio
- Litchfield County Writers Project
- Sirenland Writers Conference
- Super Soul Sunday
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