Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl ( born October 26, 1977 in near Detroit ) is an American author.

Life

Pessls father is Austrian. She studied English literature at Northwestern University and Columbia University. She then worked as a financial consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2001 she began work on a novel about the relationship between a daughter and her father. With an accompanying letter ("This is a debut novel, as they will not read it again this year " ) sent Pessl her manuscript for which they got a high advance: The everyday in Calamity Physics (English: Special Topics in Calamity Physics ) was published in 2006 in America and received almost entirely positive of the American literary criticism. It came on the bestseller list of The New York Times and has been translated into thirty languages ​​. The German literary criticism judged restrained and complained that the novel is overloaded and uneventful. So Felicitas von Lovenberg led the book in the FAZ as an example of "postmodern alls and quote literature " on. Georg Diez designated Pessl (along with Benjamin Kunkel and Jonathan Safran Foer ) as a "new American nerd ". Pessl lives in New York. Her novel Night Movie (2013 ), to the similarities to the novel Flicker (1991, dt shadowlights ) by Theodore Roszak in his closing.

Works

• Special Topics in Calamity Physics. 2006 The everyday in Calamity Physics. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007

• The American night. From the American Tobias Schnettler. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013