Kaui Hart Hemmings
Kaui Hart Hemmings , born Kaui Johnston (* 1975 in Hawaii ), is a Hawaiian writer .
Life
Kaui Hart Hemmings was born in Hawaii in 1975 and grew up with her mother. When she was five years old, her mother married the internationally successful surfer and later politician Fred Hemmings . He adopted his stepdaughter at the age of 11 and she took his last name.
Hemmings first attended the Punahou School in Honolulu , then Colorado College and Sarah Lawrence College in New York City . She then received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University in Palo Alto .
Her first novel With Your Eyes was published in several countries and was released as a film in 2011 by director Alexander Payne and lead actor George Clooney , see The Descendants - Family and Other Matters .
Hemmings is married and has two children.
Works
- House of Thieves . Penguin Press, New York 2005, ISBN 1-59420-048-3 .
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The Descendants . Random House, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-6633-9 .
- With your eyes . Translated by Adelheid Zöfel. Diana-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-35277-3 .
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The Possibilities . Simon & Schuster, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4767-2579-6 .
- Your laugh forever . Translated by Irene Eisenhut and Adelheid Zöfel. Diana-Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-35836-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ I'm a daughter now The Guardian, Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ↑ a b Kaui Hart Hemmings: The Novelist Who Wrote “The Descendants” wordpress.com, Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ↑ kauiharthemmings.com
Web links
- kauiharthemmings.com
- Literature by and about Kaui Hart Hemmings in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Kaui Hart Hemmings in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Kaui Hart Hemmings: The Novelist Who Wrote "The Descendants"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hemmings, Kaui Hart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnston, Kaui |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hawaiian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hawaii |