Katharine Weber's Books
Jul.19.2011
For readers of Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low, a fascinating memoir of an extraordinarily influential American family, from the celebrated author of True Confections, Triangle, and The Music Lesson.
The Memory of All That is Katharine Weber's memoir of the rich, strange, and fascinating cast of characters in her family, including her grandmother, Kay Swift, known both for her own...
Jan.05.2010
Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky's greatest ambition is to belong, to feel truly entitled to the heritage she has tried so hard to earn. Which is why Zip's Candies, her husband's family's company, is so much more to her than just a business. In True Confections, Alice looks back on the family-owned-and-operated candy company, now in a crisis of intergenerational struggle over succession.
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Jun.13.2006
By the time she dies at age 106, Esther Gottesfeld, the last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, has told the story of that day many times. But her own role remains mysterious: How did she survive? Are the gaps in her story just common mistakes, or has she concealed a secret over the years? As her granddaughter seeks the real story in the present day, a zealous feminist...
Sep.15.2003
In Katharine Weber's third novel, The Little Women, three adolescent sisters -- Meg, Jo, and Amy -- are shocked when they discover their mother's affair, but are truly devastated by their father's apparently easy forgiveness of her. Shattered by their parents' failure to live up to the moral standards and values of the family, the two younger sisters leave New York (and their...
Jan.10.1999
She's beautiful," writes Irish-American art historian Patricia Dolan in the first of the journal entries that form The Music Lesson. "I look at my face in the mirror and it seems far away, less real than hers."
The woman she describes is the subject of the stolen Vermeer of the novel's title. Patricia is alone with this exquisite painting in a remote Irish cottage by...
Apr.19.1995
A young photographer just winning recognition for her work, Harriet Rose is possessed by an eccentric sensibility, the product of a childhood in which privilege and haunting loss were intertwined. At twenty-six, it seems that things are going her way at last: she has found love with a painter, Benedict Thorne, and a travel fellowship has brought her to Geneva, where she can stay...
About Katharine
Author of the novel TRUE CONFECTIONS and the novels TRIANGLE, THE LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSIC LESSON, and OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR. Thesis advisor for Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Writing Program.
Causes Katharine Weber Supports
American Friends of Le Kinkeliba: www.lekinkelibaus.org
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