Amanda Filipacchi
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Amanda Filipacchi is an American
writer best known for her humorous, inventive, and controversial novels.
Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages and has received critical acclaim in the U.S. and around the world.
In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in Columbia University’s MFA fiction writing program. Immediately upon entering, she started writing her novel, Nude Men
, which would be her master’s thesis. She took a class with The New Yorker
’s fiction and poetry editor, Alice Quinn.
Impressed with Filipacchi’s novel, Quinn asked her if she had an agent and offered to recommend her to agent Melanie Jackson
. In 1992, when Filipacchi was twenty-four years old and before her graduation, Jackson sold Nude Men
to Nan Graham at Viking Press
. The novel was translated into thirteen languages, and the reviews—both in the U.S. and abroad—were almost unanimously praiseful. It was anthologized in The Best American Humor 1994 (published by Simon & Schuster 1994).
Filipacchi’s second and third novels, Vapor
(1999) and Love Creeps
(2005), were similarly well reviewed and also translated into multiple languages.
Her novels have received acclaim not only from major publications, but also from many well-known authors, including Bret Easton Ellis
, Tama Janowitz
, Edmund White
, Dale Peck
, Alain de Botton
, Kathryn Harrison
, and the French filmmaker Louis Malle
.
Reviewers have called Filipacchi “fearsomely witty,” and “a prodigious postfeminist talent.” She was hailed by The New York Times
as a "lovely comic surrealist.” Her work has been compared to John Irving
, Nabokov, Muriel Spark
, John Fante
, Angela Carter
, Lewis Carroll
, Woody Allen
, and Ann Beattie
. Love Creeps
was one of The Village Voices top 25 books of the year.
Following the Dutch-language publication of Love Creeps
in late 2004, Filipacchi was invited to be the sole North American participant in the 2005 Saint Amour literary festival, a 10-city tour through Belgium (where Nude Men
had been a number-one bestseller) that coincides with Valentine's Day.
In November 2007, film rights to Love Creeps
were optioned by Scope Invest (Geneviève Lemal at Scope Pictures), the company that produced "The Child" ("L'Enfant"), winner of the 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or Award. Love Creeps
will be developed in collaboration with producers Alexandra Milchan and Aimée Peyronnet.
Her novels have been on required reading lists in several schools in the U.S. and abroad. At present, Love Creeps
is being studied at Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program in a course on the comic novel.
, France
, was educated in France and the U.S., and holds both U.S. and French citizenship. She is the daughter of former model, Sondra Peterson
, and Daniel Filipacchi
, who is the Chairman of Hachette Filipacchi Médias
. She has been living in New York
, United States
since the age of 17.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writer best known for her humorous, inventive, and controversial novels.
Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages and has received critical acclaim in the U.S. and around the world.
Writing career
Filipacchi began writing at age thirteen. She attended Hamilton College and graduated a year early with a BA in Creative Writing.In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in Columbia University’s MFA fiction writing program. Immediately upon entering, she started writing her novel, Nude Men
Nude Men
Nude Men is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was written when she was twenty-two years old as her thesis for Columbia University's graduate creative writing program. It was published by Viking in hardback and by Penguin in paperback, and was translated into 13 languages...
, which would be her master’s thesis. She took a class with The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
’s fiction and poetry editor, Alice Quinn.
Impressed with Filipacchi’s novel, Quinn asked her if she had an agent and offered to recommend her to agent Melanie Jackson
Melanie Jackson
Melanie Jackson is a leading literary agent. She founded the highly respected Melanie Jackson Agency. Among the many awards won by her clients are: the Nobel Prize in Literature, four Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Biography:Melanie Jackson is...
. In 1992, when Filipacchi was twenty-four years old and before her graduation, Jackson sold Nude Men
Nude Men
Nude Men is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was written when she was twenty-two years old as her thesis for Columbia University's graduate creative writing program. It was published by Viking in hardback and by Penguin in paperback, and was translated into 13 languages...
to Nan Graham at Viking Press
Viking Press
Viking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
. The novel was translated into thirteen languages, and the reviews—both in the U.S. and abroad—were almost unanimously praiseful. It was anthologized in The Best American Humor 1994 (published by Simon & Schuster 1994).
Filipacchi’s second and third novels, Vapor
Vapor (novel)
Vapor is the second novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, and Polish.The novel was praised for an energetic originality showcasing a “prodigious postfeminist talent.”...
(1999) and Love Creeps
Love Creeps
Love Creeps is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean....
(2005), were similarly well reviewed and also translated into multiple languages.
Her novels have received acclaim not only from major publications, but also from many well-known authors, including Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 different languages. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney...
, Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.-Life:Her parents, a psychiatrist father, Julian Janowitz, and...
, Edmund White
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...
, Dale Peck
Dale Peck
Dale Peck is an American novelist, critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.-Biography:Peck was raised in Kansas,...
, Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton is a Swiss writer, television presenter, and entrepreneur, resident in the UK.His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. In August 2008, he was a founding member...
, Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison is an American author.-Background and education:Harrison's maternal grandparents raised her in Los Angeles, California...
, and the French filmmaker Louis Malle
Louis Malle
Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...
.
Reviewers have called Filipacchi “fearsomely witty,” and “a prodigious postfeminist talent.” She was hailed by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
as a "lovely comic surrealist.” Her work has been compared to John Irving
John Irving
John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...
, Nabokov, Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...
, John Fante
John Fante
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. He is perhaps best known for his work, Ask the Dust, a semi-autobiograpical novel about life in and around Los Angeles, California, which was the third in a series of four novels, published between 1938...
, Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...
, Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
, Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
, and Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger,...
. Love Creeps
Love Creeps
Love Creeps is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean....
was one of The Village Voices top 25 books of the year.
Following the Dutch-language publication of Love Creeps
Love Creeps
Love Creeps is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean....
in late 2004, Filipacchi was invited to be the sole North American participant in the 2005 Saint Amour literary festival, a 10-city tour through Belgium (where Nude Men
Nude Men
Nude Men is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was written when she was twenty-two years old as her thesis for Columbia University's graduate creative writing program. It was published by Viking in hardback and by Penguin in paperback, and was translated into 13 languages...
had been a number-one bestseller) that coincides with Valentine's Day.
In November 2007, film rights to Love Creeps
Love Creeps
Love Creeps is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean....
were optioned by Scope Invest (Geneviève Lemal at Scope Pictures), the company that produced "The Child" ("L'Enfant"), winner of the 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or Award. Love Creeps
Love Creeps
Love Creeps is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean....
will be developed in collaboration with producers Alexandra Milchan and Aimée Peyronnet.
Her novels have been on required reading lists in several schools in the U.S. and abroad. At present, Love Creeps
Love Creeps
Love Creeps is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean....
is being studied at Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program in a course on the comic novel.
Biography
Filipacchi was born in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, was educated in France and the U.S., and holds both U.S. and French citizenship. She is the daughter of former model, Sondra Peterson
Sondra Peterson
Sondra Peterson is best known as one of the top models of the 1950s and 60s, regularly appearing on the covers of Vogue, Elle, French Vogue, Seventeen, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and Marie Claire in the U.S. and Europe...
, and Daniel Filipacchi
Daniel Filipacchi
Daniel Filipacchi is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias.His life and career have been noted for his passionate involvement in art collecting, photography, and jazz...
, who is the Chairman of Hachette Filipacchi Médias
Hachette Filipacchi Médias
Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. is a magazine publisher. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Media of France.- History :Hachette Filipacchi was founded by Louis Hachette in 1826 when he purchased the Librarie Brédif. Hachette was purchased by Matra in 1980, a firm associated with Ténot &...
. She has been living in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
since the age of 17.
External links
- Amanda Filipacchi fan page on Myspace
- Amanda Filipacchi: Official Website
- from the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYCWNYCWNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations located in New York City.WNYC broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM is at 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of National Public Radio and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs...
(audio): http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/07/24 - Interview with Amanda Filipacchi KGBBarLit.
- The Chicago Tribune review of Nude Men
- Newsday review of Nude Men
- Boston Globe review of Love Creeps
- Love Creeps listed in The Village Voices top 25 books of the year