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American writer (born 1955)
Jill Ciment (born March 19, 1953) is an American writer.
Biography
Ciment was born in
Montreal ,
Quebec , Canada. She studied art at the
California Institute of Arts (CalArts), under
John Baldessari .
[1] She earned her BFA from CalArts in 1975.
[2] She received her MFA in creative writing from the
University of California, Irvine in 1981.
[3]
Ciment is a professor of English at the
University of Florida in
Gainesville, Florida . Her novel, Heroic Measures was one of titles chosen by
Oprah Winfrey 's Book Club for 2009 summer reading.
[4] This book was also one of the top five finalists for the
Los Angeles Times Book Award for 2010.
[5]
5 Flights Up , a film adaptation of Heroic Measures starring
Morgan Freeman and
Diane Keaton , was released in the U.S. on May 8, 2015.
She married artist
Arnold Mesches when she was 17 and they were married until his death in 2016. Her memoir, Half a Life , reflected on their relationship, and following his death and in context of the
Me Too movement she is re-examining this work in a new memoir, The Other Half.
[6]
Grants and literary awards
Two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1996 and 2002)
[7]
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2005)
[8]
Guggenheim Foundation grant (2006)
[9]
The
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (2005)
[10]
NEA Japan Fellowship Prize
Works
Novels
The Law of Falling Bodies , Poseidon, 1993
[11]
Teeth of the Dog , Crown, 1998
[12]
The Tattoo Artist , Pantheon, 2005
[13]
Heroic Measures , Pantheon, 2009
[14]
Act of God , Pantheon, 2015
[15]
The Hand That Feeds You , (with
Amy Hempel ) writing as A.J. Rich, Scribner, 2015
[16]
The Body in Question , Pantheon, 2019
[17]
Short stories
Collections:
Small Claims , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986, collection of 4 (or more) short stories:
"Self-Portrait with Vanishing Point", "Genetics", "Astronomy", "Money" (novella)
Non-fiction
Half a Life , Crown, 1996 (memoir)
[18]
Adaptations
Astronomy (1998), short directed by Susan Rogers, based on short story "Astronomy"
5 Flights Up (2014), film directed by
Richard Loncraine , based on novel Heroic Measures
References
^
"ARNOLD MESCHES and JILL CIMENT with Robert Storr and Phong Bui" . Brooklynrail.org. 4 March 2010.
Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^
"Noted Novelist Brings Remarkable Personal Story To Davidson Classroom" . Davidson.edu. Archived from
the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^
"Jill Ciment : Professor" . English.ufl.edu. Archived from
the original on 20 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^
"Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment" . Oprah.com.
Archived from the original on 22 June 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^
"2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners" . Events.latimes.com. Archived from
the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^
"Revision Quest" . This American Life . 2019-12-07.
Archived from the original on 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2020-01-02 .
^
"Directory of Artists' Fellows, 1985-2013" (PDF) . www.nyfa.org . New York Foundation for the Arts.
Archived (PDF) from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
^ "Half a life is a long phone call from a friend (Review)", The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) , 1996 Quote from source: She has ... received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and others.
^
"Jill Ciment" . www.gf.org . 2006.
Archived from the original on January 4, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
^
"Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize—Past Recipients" . www.rochester.edu . 2005.
Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
^ Ciment, Jill (1993).
The law of falling bodies . New York: Poseidon Press.
ISBN
0-671-79451-5 .
OCLC
26588628 .
^ Ciment, Jill (1999).
Teeth of the dog : a novel (1st ed.). New York: Crown Publishers.
ISBN
0-517-70202-9 .
OCLC
39180866 .
^ Ciment, Jill (2005).
The tattoo artist (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books.
ISBN
0-375-42325-7 .
OCLC
57283791 .
^ Ciment, Jill (2015). Heroic measures . London.
ISBN
978-1-78227-194-9 .
OCLC
938790734 . {{
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^ Ciment, Jill (2015).
Act of God . New York.
ISBN
978-0-307-91170-4 .
OCLC
881406944 . {{
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^ Rich, A. J. (7 July 2015). The hand that feeds you . New York.
ISBN
978-1-4767-7458-9 .
OCLC
900158232 . {{
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^ Ciment, Jill (2019). The body in question : a novel (First ed.). New York.
ISBN
978-1-5247-4798-5 .
OCLC
1049577535 . {{
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^ Ciment, Jill (1997). Half a life (1st Anchor Books ed.). New York: Anchor Books.
ISBN
0-385-48891-2 .
OCLC
36501398 .
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