Cathleen Schine
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Cathleen Schine is an American author of several novels, including Rameau's Niece (1993).

Her first book was Alice in Bed (1983), which was followed by To The Birdhouse (1990), The Love Letter (1995) and The Evolution of Jane (1998). The Love Letter was filmed in 1999. Rameau's Niece was filmed as "The Misadventures of Margaret" starring Parker Posey
Parker Posey
Parker Christian Posey is an American actress. She became known during the 1990s after a series of roles in several well-received independent films. As a result, she has often been referred to as the "Queen of the Indies"....

. She Is Me was released in November 2005 and her work The New Yorkers: a novel reached publication early 2007. Her latest novel, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, published in February 2010, was dubbed "compulsively readable" by Publishers Weekly.

Schine also wrote a Sunday Serial for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Dead and the Naked, which ran beginning September 9, 2007. One character, Miss Skattergoods, also appears in The Love Letter. Schine is also a distinguished essayist and literary critic whose work appears frequently in The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...

, 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...

and other publications. Her essay "Dog Trouble", which was originally published in The New Yorker, was included in The Best American Essays of 2005.

Reviewer Leah Rozen in People
People (magazine)
In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...

magazine dubbed her "a modern-day Jewish Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

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Her ex-husband is the New Yorker film critic David Denby
David Denby (film critic)
David Denby is an American journalist, best known as a film critic for The New Yorker magazine.-Background and education:Denby grew up in New York City. He received a B.A...

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The Three Weissmanns of Westport is a modern-day take on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, is a British romance novel by Jane Austen, her first published work under the pseudonym, "A Lady." Jane Austen is considered a pioneer of the romance genre of novels, and for the realism portrayed in her novels, is one the most widely read writers in...

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