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Intro
Canadian writer
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Montreal, Canada
Age
69 years
Education
California Institute of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
 
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
(2005)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 
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Biography

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. She earned her BFA from CalArts in 1975. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine in 1981.

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. This book was also one of the top five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for 2010. 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.

Grants and literary awards

  • Two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1996 and 2002)
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2005)
  • Guggenheim Foundation grant (2006)
  • The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (2005)
  • NEA Japan Fellowship Prize

Works

Novels

  • The Law of Falling Bodies, Poseidon, 1993
  • Teeth of the Dog, Crown, 1998
  • The Tattoo Artist, Pantheon, 2005
  • Heroic Measures, Pantheon, 2009
  • Act of God, Pantheon, 2015
  • The Hand That Feeds You, (with Amy Hempel) writing as A.J. Rich, Scribner, 2015
  • The Body in Question, Pantheon, 2019

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)

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
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