Maria Semple
Maria Semple (born May 21, 1964 in Santa Monica , California ) is an American writer and screenwriter .
Life
Maria Semple is the daughter of screenwriter Lorenzo Semple junior and grew up in Spain, California and Colorado. She studied English at Barnard College in New York. She started out in Los Angeles as a screenwriter for the television series Beverly Hills, 90210 . She wrote an episode for the sitcom Ellen in 1994, an episode for Love Must Be Crazy in 1996, and the lyrics for seasons three and four of Susan . She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Crazy About You .
In 2008, This One Is Mine was her first novel, and in the same year she moved to Seattle with her husband and child . The move gave her the social background for the novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette , which was shortlisted for the 2013 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and became a bestseller. In her novel Today Will Be Different , published in 2016, she condenses the plot into a day in Seattle that (finally) should “be different”.
Works (selection)
- This One Is Mine . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008
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Where'd you go, Bernadette . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012
- Where are you, Bernadette? : Roman . Translation by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann. Munich: btb, 2015
- Today Will Be Different . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Maria Semple in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Maria Semple in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Maria Semple in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maria Semple , website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janet Maslin: Maria Semple's 'Today Will Be Different' Serves Up Screwball With Soul . Review, New York Times , September 29, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Semple, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Monica |