Cathleen Schine

Cathleen Schine ( born 1953 in Westport, Connecticut, USA) is an American writer.

The focus of their education at Sarah Lawrence College, was first in the field of "Creative Writing" and writing poetry. But there already moved their main interest: now was the medieval literature with the focus on the illustrated texts of the 13th century the focus of her studies, she was continuing in New York, Barnard College and Columbia University.

At the age of 20 years, an inflammatory and painful bowel disease was in her colitis diagnosed. During the lengthy therapy Cathleen Schine began to write for the magazine The Village Voice about these experiences. The publisher encouraged her to use the material for a book. So she made her debut in 1983 with the novel Alice in Bed, which tells the life of a witty, suffering from a painful hip disease young woman and was reviewed with praise by critics.

Cathleen Schine is a freelance writer with her ​​husband, the film critic David Denby, and her two sons in Manhattan and writes for several newspapers and magazines, among other things, for The New York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books. Several of her novels have been filmed.

Works

• Alice in Bed, novel, 1983
• To the Birdhouse, novel, 1990
• Rameau's Niece, Roman ( Original title: Rameau 's Niece (1993 ), German Giovanni and Ditte Bandini ), dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-12328-1.
• The Evolution of Jane (1998).
• The Love Letter, Roman ( German Giovanni and Ditte Bandini )
• Darwin's whims, Roman ( German Giovanni and Ditte Bandini )
• Days with Emma, Roman ( German Giovanni and Ditte Bandini )
• A love in Manhattan, Roman ( German Giovanni and Ditte Bandini )