Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (born about 1960 ) is an American writer .
Life
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney grew up in Rochester , attended college, and lived and worked for the next 27 years as a freelance copywriter in New York City , where she lived in Barbès . She is married and moved to Los Angeles in 2009 with her husband, who is a headwriter on The Tonight Show , and college-aged children . After the childhood phase in the family, I now completed a degree in creative writing at Bennington College and graduated with an MFA. For her first novel, begun at Bennington, she received a seven-digit dollar advance from HarperCollins . The novel The Nest was published in March 2016 and was No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list in April . She is writing the script for the filming under the producer and director Jill Soloway .
Works (selection)
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The Nest . New York: HarperCollins, 2016
- The nest . Translation Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2016
- Country Living Easy Transformations: Kitchens . New York: Hearst Books, 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney at perlentaucher.de
- Cynthia D'APRIX Sweeney in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeff Vasishta: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's Million Dollar Baby , in: Interview , March 22, 2016
- ↑ Klaus Nüchtern: It's the legacy, silly . Review, in: Literary World , November 5, 2016, p. 2
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| SURNAME | D'Aprix Sweeney, Cynthia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1960 |