the kratz center for creative writing at goucher college

 

 

 

 

 

Praise

for Katharine Weber's

THE MUSIC LESSON

 

"The Music Lesson is very moving, at times terrifying, and throughout entirely gripping. A really important novel ... I look forward to reading her other books."
-- Dame Muriel Spark

"Part dirge, part jig, part lyrical ballad, The Music Lesson lures the reader into the world of art theft, the Troubles, and the vagaries of desperate love. Katharine Weber has written a novel suffused with the haunting language of the Irish landscape, its fecund enticements and ever-present terrors."
-- Allen Kurzweil

"In graceful, economical prose Katharine Weber carries us from New York to Ireland, art to politics, love to death. The Music Lesson is an engrossing and suspenseful novel."
-- Margot Livesey




 

Acclaimed novelist, journalist, and educator

Katharine Weber

joins the

Kratz Center for Creative Writing

as the spring 2006 writer-in-residence.

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She will read from her work on April 5th at 8 PM 2006 in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House at Goucher College. She will also teach English 300, an advanced fiction-writing workshop for upper-class undergraduate majors in creative writing during the spring 2006 semester.

http://www.katharineweber.com/

Katharine Weber is the author of two novels that appeared in hardcover by Crown Publishers and paperback by Picador: Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear and THE MUSIC LESSON. Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Picador published respective hardcover and paperback versions of her latest novel, THE LITTLE WOMEN. The Chicago Tribune called THE LITTLE WOMEN one of the best books published in 2003. The New York Times Book Review named all three of Katharine Weber’s novels Notable Books. Her fiction debuted in print with the publication of the short story "Friend of the Family” in The New Yorker in January 1993. A longtime teacher of fiction writing at Yale University, Katharine Weber was born in New York City in 1955. She wrote a weekly column for the Sunday New Haven Register from 1985 to 1987. From 1987 to 1989 she was the Books columnist for Connecticut Magazine. From 1988 to 1992 she reviewed literary fiction for Publishers Weekly and wrote numerous author profiles as well. Her book reviews have since appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, The San Jose Mercury News, The London Review of Books, The Ruminator Review, Washington Post Bookworld, Vogue, and The Readerville Journal. Katharine's maternal grandmother was the songwriter Kay Swift. Since her death in 1993, Katharine has been a Trustee and the Administrator of the Kay Swift Memorial Trust, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting the music of Kay Swift. This work includes the first Broadway musical with a score by a woman, "Fine and Dandy," and several popular show tunes of the era, among them "Fine and Dandy" and "Can't We Be Friends?"

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Katharine Weber's most recent novel is

THE LITTLE WOMEN

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Katharine Weber's new novel, TRIANGLE, will be published in June of 2006.
  


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