Marisa Silver (April 23, 1960 - ) is an American author, screenplay writer and film director.
Silver was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director.
Marisa Silver directed her first film, Old Enough, while she studied at Harvard University. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984, when Silver was just 23. ("This was before Sundance was Sundance," she says. "It was just 20 people coming to ski and watch movies.") Silver went on to direct three more feature films, including Permanent Record (1988), with Keanu Reeves, and He Said, She Said (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins. The latter was co-directed with her husband-to-be, Ken Kwapis.
After making her career in Hollywood, she decided to switch her profession and entered graduate school to become a short story writer. Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2006 and subsequently several more stories have been published there.
Silver published the short-story collection, Babe in Paradise, in 2001. That collection was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. A story from the collection was included in The Best American Short Stories 2000. In 2005, W. W. Norton & Company published her novel, No Direction Home. Her latest novel, The God of War, was published in April 2008 by Simon & Schuster.
She and Kwapis reside in Los Angeles with their two sons.
References
^ Veale, Scott. "New & Noteworthy Paperbacks", The New York Times, October 6, 2002. Accessed March 16, 2008.
^ McKenzie, Elizabeth. "'No Direction Home': Random Family", The New York Times, August 14, 2005. Accessed March 16, 2008.
External links
Official website
Marisa Silver at the Internet Movie Database
Marisa Silver's Filmography
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