Sheila Kohler

Sheila Kohler (born 13 November 1941) is a South African author now living in the United States and the author of ten novels (including '' Cracks'' which was adapted into a 2009 film of the same name), and three short story collections. Her writing has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''O Magazine'' and included in the ''Best American Short Stories''. She has twice won an O'Henry Prize.

Biography

Sheila Kohler was born 13 November 1941 in JohannesburgKohlrer, Sheila 1941 - Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series , Encyclopedia.com
Retrieved 27 June 2016. and educated at St. Andrew's School for Girls where she matriculated in 1958 with a distinction in History. She then moved to Europe and spent 15 years in Paris where she married and completed an undergraduate degree in Literature at The Sorbonne (1973) and a graduate degree in Psychology from Institut Catholique (1976). She moved to the United States in 1981 and obtained an MFA from Columbia University (1984). From 1995 to 2000 she taught at The New School, and between 2000 and 2006 at Bennington College. She now teaches at Princeton University and Columbia, writes a blog for ''Psychology Today'' and lives in New York City, and Amagansett. She has three daughters, Sasha Troyen, Cybele and Brett Sasha Troyen has herself published two novels. She is married to Dr. William Tucker, a psychiatrist.

Writing

As revealed in the authors website, the violent death of her sister thirty years ago in apartheid South Africa caused her to explore in her fiction the theme of "violence within intimate relationships, in particular, the abuse of power and privilege." She explains that "Since then I have published nine novels, three collections of short stories, and several others not yet collected, all of which focus in some way on this theme". Her novel ''Open Secrets'' (2020) appeared in ''Vogue'''s list of the best novels of 2020, with Ian Malone writing, "The novel seduces and startles ..as the suspense mounts, the scope of the novel is revealed: Russian liaisons, hidden dossiers, convenient suicides, and complicit children render a frightening—and thrilling—landscape."

Novels

*''The Perfect Place'' (1989)
*''The House on R Street'' (1994)
*'' Cracks'' (1999)
*''The Children of Pithiviers'' (2001)
*''Crossways'' (2004)
*''Bluebird'' (2007)
*''Becoming Jane Eyre'' (2009)
*''Love Child'' (2011)
*''The Bay of Foxes'' (2012)
*''Dreaming for Freud'' (2014)
*''Open Secrets'' (2020)

Collections

*''Miracles in America'' (1990)
*''One Girl'' (1998)
*''Stories from Another World'' (2003)

Non-fiction

*''Once We Were Sisters'' (2017)

References

External links

*
Blog
for ''Psychology Today''

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Living people
People from Johannesburg
South African women novelists
Women mystery writers
University of Paris alumni
Institut Catholique de Paris alumni
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Princeton University faculty
1941 births
People from Amagansett, New York
Columbia University faculty
The New School faculty
Bennington College faculty
South African women short story writers
South African short story writers
Writers from Manhattan