About
Author of six novels: Still Life With Monkey (Paul Dry Books, 2018), True Confections (Shaye Areheart, 2010), Triangle (FSG 2006), The Little Women (FSG 2003), The Music Lesson (Crown, 2001), Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Crown, 1995)
Author of story collection and novella: Jane of Hearts and Other Stories (Paul Dry Books, 2022)
Author of family memoir: The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities (Crown, 2011) A play by David Caudle, Duet For Three, in workshops now, was inspired by this book.
2012-2019: Richard L. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College;
Editor at Large, KENYON REVIEW
Featured Work
Jane of Hearts and Other Stories
JANE OF HEARTS AND OTHER STORIES
At the heart of every story in this collection, Katharine Weber has located a compelling character in medias res, at a moment when situation, desire, and identity are intersecting and sometimes colliding. Children go door to door selling poison mushrooms. An elderly New Yorker on the brink of losing her freedom bolts for one last dignified adventure. A girl is employed to babysit a sleeping baby she is forbidden to see. In the title novella, lonely children roaming their Connecticut neighborhood discover a forgotten bomb shelter, which they make their secret headquarters. Jane of Hearts offers Katharine Weber’s readers a lively assortment of her short fiction, each story a precise and nuanced investigation of its moments.
