Marisa Silver

Marisa Silver born April 23 1960 is an American author screenwriter and film director as well as the daughter of director Joan Micklin Silver 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 23 Silver went on to direct three more feature films Permanent Record 1988 with Keanu Reeves Vital Signs 1990 with Diane Lane and Jimmy Smits and He Said She Said 1991 with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins The latter was codirected with her husbandtobe Ken Kwapis After making her career in Hollywood she switched her profession and entered graduate school to become a short story writer Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2000 and subsequently several more stories have been published there Silver published the shortstory 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 novel The God of War was published in April 2008 by Simon Schuster Her second shortstory collection Alone with You was published in 2010 and her third novel Mary Coin in 2013 She was a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Otis College Graduate Writing Program in 2017 and also on the fiction faculty at Warren Wilson College She was awarded the 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fiction Her most recent work a novel titled Little Nothing was released September 13 2016