Lisa Genova

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Lisa Genova (born November 22, 1970 ) is an American neuroscientist and writer.

Life

Lisa Genova graduated from Bates College in 1992 in biopsychology as the best of her class and received her PhD in 1998 from Harvard University in neuroscience . After completing her doctorate, she did research in the field of drug addiction. When her grandmother developed Alzheimer's, Genova researched the disease but found only medical literature on it, nothing that helped her better understand her grandmother in this situation. So she decided to write a novel on the subject later.

She married and after the birth of her daughter in 2000 left the job to become a housewife and mother. After the divorce in 2004, she decided not to return to her job, but to write the planned novel. After this novel, Still Alice (dt. My life without yesterday could find an agent), not a publisher, she released him in 2007 despite warnings that this would her career as a writer An End before they have really begun, self-published at iUniverse . In 2009 the work was published by Pocket Books (a publisher of Simon & Schuster ) after very positive reviews . After the great success of Still Alice , she decided to become a full-time writer.

In addition to her novels, Lisa Genova is committed to destigmatizing diseases - especially Alzheimer's and Huntington's - and to educate them about them. For this purpose she appeared on various television programs. She also appeared in the documentary film To Not Fade Away .

She describes herself as divorced happy and lives with her children in Cape Cod ( Massachusetts ).

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In line with her academic training, Lisa Genova writes novels about people with neurological diseases or problems. She attaches great importance to describing the emotional world of these people, but also mentions the scientific side.

In Still Alice (dt. My life without Yesterday ) (since the filming Still Alice - My Life Without Yesterday ) of 2009 is about the struggle of the (fictional) Harvard professor Alice Howland with Alzheimer's . The story is told from Alice's point of view.

Genovas second novel Left Neglected (dt. More than half a lifetime ) of 2011 is about Sarah Nick Olsen, a woman who after an accident under the visual Neglect suffering, which means it does not perceive the left side of her field of view; the brain ignores this page so thoroughly that for Sarah it just doesn't exist.

In 2012 she released Love Anthony (Eng. Give love a voice ). It is about a boy with autism who died at the age of eight. His mother withdraws to an island. There she becomes friends with a woman who has thrown her husband out and is now writing a novel. Written about a boy with autism and from his point of view.

In Inside the O'Briens (dt. A good day to live ) (2015) gets a Boston police officer and family man diagnosing Huntington's disease . The story is told not only from his point of view, but also from that of his daughter Katie, who has a 50% chance of also having this incurable disease and has to wonder if she wants to be tested.

2018 appeared Every note Played (dt. In my dreams I hear you play ), a novel about a famous pianist in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ill (ALS). His ex-wife returns to him to take care of him. While he is losing health, the two find reconciliation, with each other and with their adult daughter.

Awards

  • 2015: Pell Center Prize
  • 2015: Media Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • 2015: RARE Champions of Hope Award

Publications

Adaptations

Christine Dunford adapted Mein Leben ohne Gestern 2013 for the theater and staged this adaptation at the Lookingglass Theater in Chicago .

My Life Without Yesterday was filmed in 2014 under the title Still Alice - My Life Without Yesterday by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland with Julianne Moore as Alice. Moore received several awards for her performance in the film, including an Oscar and the Golden Globe .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lisa Genova: Inside Huntington's. In: Huffpost Healthy Living. June 2, 2015, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Completed Dissertations. In: Harvard University website. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c About Lisa. In: Official website of Lisa Genova. Archived from the original on March 31, 2016 ; accessed on April 10, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h If You Could Do Anything You Wanted: Lisa Genova (Bold Talks). In: Inbound. Archived from the original on April 20, 2016 ; accessed on April 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Lisa Genova: Author Essay. In: Simon & Schuster's website. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  6. ^ A b Laurie Lico Albanese: Neuroscience and Nursing Babies: A Talk with Lisa Genova. In: Shelf Awareness. September 23, 2010, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Dagney Pruner: A Conversation About Humanity With "Still Alice" writer Lisa Genova. In: wewomen - Women in Focus. January 15, 2015, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b Jessica Firger: "Still Alice" novelist shines spotlight on early onset Alzheimer's. In: CBS News. January 16, 2015, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  9. ↑ a b Beverly Beckham: Despite monster, she is 'Still Alice' . In: The Boston Globe . March 16, 2008 ( online [accessed April 10, 2016]).
  10. ↑ Still Alice: Self-published novel, NYT Best Seller and Oscar-winning Motion Picture. In: iUniverse. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  11. ↑ a b Alden Mudge: Lisa Genova - Novelist captures a world cut in half. In: Bookpage. January 2011, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  12. ↑ To Not Fade Away in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  13. ↑ David Wasser: Executive Producers Blog, Part 2. In: rltv. Retrieved April 10, 2016 (English, section Lisa Genova).
  14. ↑ a b Jocelyn McClurg: Inside Lisa Genova's medical best sellers . In: USA Today . April 6, 2015 ( online [accessed April 10, 2016]).
  15. ↑ Jana Witte: My life without yesterday. In: booklove.de. November 1, 2011, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Jana Mareike von Bergner: Lisa Genova: "My life without yesterday" . In: Listen . December 7, 2009 ( online [accessed April 10, 2016]).
  17. ↑ Love Anthony . In: Kirkus Reviews . September 1, 2012 ( online [accessed April 10, 2016]).
  18. ↑ 'Love Anthony'? You might. In: USA Today. March 10, 2012, accessed April 10, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Every Note Played . In: Kirkus Reviews . January 23, 2018 ( online [accessed March 22, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Every Note Played. In: Publishers Weekly . Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  21. ^ Lisa Genova: Neuroscientist, Best Selling Author, Advocate and 2015 Pell Center Prize Winner. In: Internet presence of the Pell Center. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  22. ^ Media Award Past Winners. In: Internet presence of the American Colledge of Neuropsychopharmacology. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; accessed on April 10, 2016 .
  23. ↑ 2015 RARE Champion of Hope Honorees. In: Global Genes. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Christine Mary Dunford. In: Internet presence of the Lookingglass Theater. Retrieved April 10, 2016 (English, click the picture of Christine Dunford; the names of the people appear when the cursor is on one of the pictures).
  25. ^ Courtney Cox: 'Still Alice' Author Lisa Genova On Julianne Moore & What Comes Next. In: Access Hollywood. January 14, 2015, accessed April 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Genova, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neuroscientist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1970