It’s never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it’s an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
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| Birth: | 1975 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is an American novelist. She is author of four novels: Prep, the tale of a Massachusetts prep school; The Man of My Dreams, a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love; American Wife, a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush, and Sisterland, which tells the story of identical twins with psychic powers, as well as a number of short stories. At Stanford, she studied Creative Writing, wrote articles for the college newspaper, and edited that paper's weekly arts magazine. At the time, she was also chosen as one of Glamour magazine's College Women of the Year. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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