Katherine reiss biography

Early life and education.
Kathryn Reiss is an American author of award-winning children's and young adult fiction.
Katharina Reiss (17 April 1923 – 16 April 2018) was a German linguist and translation scholar.

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I was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. After college, I lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of my first novel, TIME WINDOWS. Getting it published was a dream come true for me, and I am so honored that it's still in print more than twenty years later, has won awards, and had some interest from movie producers (but no film in the works yet...). I've been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, The International Reading Association, Fresno County Office of Education, California Reading Association, The American Library Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English. My husband and I liv

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Kathryn Reiss

Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel.

Ms. Reiss has been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and has been a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, The International Reading Association, Fresno County Office of Education, California Reading Association, The American Library Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English. She lives in Northern California with her husband and five children, and teaches Creative Writing at Mills College.

Genres: Children's Fiction

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Reiss, Kathryn 1957-

PERSONAL: Surname is pronounced "reese"; born December 4, 1957, in Cambridge, MA; daughter of Edmund Alan Reiss and Dorothy Ann (Kauffman) Molnar; married Thomas Strychacz (a professor), October 2, 1981; children: Nicholas, Daniel, Isabel. Ethnicity: Caucasian. Education: Duke University, B.A. (English and German), 1980; attended Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (Bonn, Germany), 1980-81; University of Michigan, M.F.A., 1988. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Presbyterian. Hobbies and other interests: Traveling, reading, collecting old series books.

ADDRESSES: Home—Benicia, CA. Office—Mills College, English Department, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613. Agent—Marilyn E. Marlow, Curtis Brown, Ltd., 10 Astor Pl., New York, NY 10003. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Princeton Language Group, Princeton, NJ, instructor, 1981-82; Stuart Country Day School, Princeton, director of foreign exchange, 1981-82; Princeton Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Princeton, instructor, 1981-82, and 1984; Europa at Princeton (a bo