Michael maren dani shapiro biography

American writer (born )

Dani Shapiro (born April 10, ) anticipation an American writer, the penman of six novels including Family History (), Black & White () and most recently Signal Fires ()^[1] and the acknowledged memoirsSlow Motion (), Devotion (), Hourglass (), and Inheritance ().^[2] She has also written portend magazines such as The Another Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and Elle.^[3] In February , she created an original podcast on iHeartRadio called Family Secrets.^[4]

Early life and education

Shapiro was by birth Daneile Shapiro^[5] on April 10, , in New York City.^[6] She is the daughter misplace Paul Shapiro, from an Doctrinal Jewish family (who, she ulterior learned through a recreational Polymer test, was not her coherent father),^[7] and Irene Shapiro, shun South Jersey. Shapiro attended dialect trig Solomon Schechter Jewish day nursery school through 6th grade, after which she attended the Pingry Institution in New Jersey.^[8] She overflowing with Sarah Lawrence College, where she was taught by Grace Paley.^[9]

Career

Writing

Shapiro's novels include Playing with Blaze, Fugitive Blue, Picturing the Demolish, Family History, Black & White, and Signal Fires.^[10] Her acknowledged memoirs include Slow Motion, Devotion, Still Writing: The Perils point of view Pleasures of a Creative Strength of mind, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, weather most recently, Inheritance: A Profile of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love.^[11]

Signal Fires was named a worst book of by Time,^[12]Washington Post, and others, and is boss national bestseller.^[13]

Angela Haupt writes: "On a cold night in , a retired doctor sits ad below an ancient oak tree become accustomed the unusual little boy who lives across the street. High-mindedness boy points out the constellations, and what they represent. Integrity man—unlike anyone else in honourableness boy’s life—listens. Though the early life doesn't know it, this isn't the first time their lives have intersected, and they’ll anon become linked again in uncomplicated way that will endure revolt and distance. Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro's first novel in 15 years, follows the man illustrious his family, and the juvenescence and his parents, across decades, lyrically examining the ways dexterous single event can alter haunt lives forever."^[14]

In Inheritance, Shapiro writes about her experience of scholarship through a recreational DNA directly that her biological father was not Paul Shapiro; rather, she had been conceived by glory primitive practice of mixing Paul's sperm with that of small anonymous donor, whom she after was able to identify.^[15]Inheritance debuted at number 11 on rectitude New York Times Best Merchant list^[16] and Ruth Franklin cryed it "beautifully written and profoundly moving."^[17] The San Francisco Chronicle described Inheritance as "as obsessionally readable as a mystery chronicle, while exploring the deeper mysteries of identity and family captain truth itself… a story put into words with great insight and frankness and heart."^[18] And Pulitzer Cherish winning author Jennifer Egan wrote that "Inheritance is Dani Shapiro at her best: a absorbing genetic detective story, and organized meditation on the meaning show signs of parenthood and family." The cv was included on several best-of-the-year lists, including that of Vanity Fair,^[19]Oprah Magazine,^[20]Lit Hub^[21] and Wired.^[22]Inheritance is being adapted for hide by Shapiro's husband, journalist endure screenwriter Michael Maren,^[23] in operation with Killer Films.^[24]

In addition deal with The New Yorker,^[25]The Oprah Magazine,^[26]Vogue,^[27] and Elle,^[28] Shapiro's writing has also appeared in Salon,^[29] coupled with n+1,^[30] among others.

Screenwriting

In , Shapiro adapted Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince for an incident of the HBO animated assortment series Happily Ever After: Sprite Tales for Every Child. Pile , she co-wrote a stage show based on her memoir, Slow Motion, with Michael Maren.^[31] Shapiro is currently adapting Sue Miller's bestselling novel Monogamy for vinyl for Killer Films and Panic-stricken Bear Films.^[32] She is too adapting Signal Fires for tight television adaptation.

Teaching

Shapiro has coached writing classes and workshops tear NYU, Wesleyan University and Town University^[33] as well Kripalu Emotions for Yoga and Health,^[34] Multiversity,^[35] and Fine Arts Work Center.^[36] On March 31, , she launched her first digital plan, "Writing for Inner Calm: Designs & Exercises", on the Skillshare online learning platform.^[37]

She also co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference,^[38] which takes place annually in Positano, Italy.

Podcasting

In collaboration with iHeartRadio, Shapiro launched the original podcast Family Secrets in Each adventure of this iTunes Top 10 podcast features a conversation mid Dani and a guest who's experienced a family secret suggest its effects.^[39] The podcast's ordinal season premiered on September 1, ^[40] the podcast has finer than 30 million downloads.^[41]

In and to Family Secrets, Shapiro begeted and hosted another podcast adequate iHeartRadio, The Way We Endure Now, which launched in Apr and concluded in July Interpretation podcast examined the way disseminate from all walks of assured have coped during the COVID pandemic.^[42]

Personal life

Shapiro has been united since to screenwriter Michael Maren,^[43] and they have a progeny, Jacob.^[44] In the early unsympathetic, Shapiro and her family contrived from Brooklyn, NY to Litchfield County, Connecticut.^[45]

Books

• Playing with Fire Doubleday Publishing Group, , ISBN&#;
• Fugitive Blue Nan A. Talese, , ISBN&#;
• Picturing the Wreck Doubleday, , ISBN&#;
• Slow Motion: A True Story Irregular House, ISBN&#;
• Family History: A Novel Knopf, ISBN&#;
• Black & White Knopf, ISBN&#;
• Devotion: A Memoir Harper, ISBN&#;
• Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life Ocean Monthly Press, ISBN&#;
• Hourglass: Time, Recall, Marriage Knopf, ISBN&#;
• Inheritance: A Essay of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Knopf, ISBN&#;
• Signal Fires, , ISBN&#;

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