Sarah Willis (author)
Sarah Willis (born April 10, 1954 in Cleveland Heights , Ohio ) is an American author.
Life
Sarah Willis grew up in Cleveland Heights, attended school there in the 1960s and now lives there. After graduating from high school, she started working at the local clinic in 1971. She also studied at Cuyahoga Community College in Otterbein and graduated in 1978 from Case Western Reserve University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in "Theater Arts". After that, made a certificate in photography at the Cooper School of Art . When she was 34, she took creative writing classes at Cleveland State University and eventually found her calling as a writer.
Willis has written literary contributions to a wide variety of journals and magazines, and published her first novel Some things that stay in 2000 , which was recognized by the New York Times as Notable Book of the Year.
Willis has since published three more novels. The novel Some things that stay was filmed in Canada in 2004 .
Works
- Some things that stay . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
- The rehearsal . New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001.
- A good distance . New York: Berkley Books, 2004.
- The sound of us . New York: Berkley Books, 2005.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sarah Willis in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Sarah Willis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sarah Willis , website
- Some things that stay , and other reviews at Publishers Weekly
- Sarah Willis , at Ohio Center for the Book - Cleveland Public Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the short biography on the homepage
- ^ Joanna Scott : Family Portrait , New York Times, March 5, 2000
- ↑ Some things that stay. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willis, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland Heights |