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Katherine Heiny is an American writer. She has written two novels, Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser, along with two books of short stories, essays and long-form journalism.
Biography
editHeiny was born in 1968 and is the youngest of three children. Her father was a chemical engineer and her mother was a chemist. She grew up in Midland, Michigan.[1]
She attended Columbia University and attained an MFA in poetry, followed by another in creative writing.[1]
Her British husband, Ian McCredie, is a former MI6 agent and they have two sons. She has lived in London and The Hague, and now lives in Maryland, United States.[1]
Career
editIn 1992, when she was 25, Heiny's short story 'How to Give the Wrong Impression' was published in ''The New Yorker'' after having been rejected 30 times. She began writing YA novels under a pen name, before stopping writing to raise her family.[2]
Heiny’s first short story collection, Single, Carefree, Mellow, was published in 2015. She was compared with writers Nora Ephron, John Cheever and Lorrie Moore.[2]
Her first novel, Standard Deviation, was published in 2017. It was described in Kirkus Reviews as: “An amusingly engaging take on long-term marriage with a lovably loopy character at its center.”[3]
Her second novel, Early Morning Riser, was published in 2021. It was described in The Spectator as “raucously funny, but what sustains it is an ability to flip seamlessly from farce to tender emotional reckonings”.[4]
Her second short story collection, Games and Rituals, was published in 2023. It was described in The Guardian as “highly crafted stories of quiet suburban despair that are also genuinely funny”.[1]
Heiny has commented: “I just like to write about sex and relationships, and that ends up being about infidelity a lot”. She says she takes inspiration from comic encounters with strangers.[1]
Heiny's fiction has been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Glimmer Train'', and other places. She also writes essays and long-form journalism.
Works
editNovels
edit- Standard Deviation, London : 4th Estate (2017)
- Early Morning Riser, London : 4th Estate (2021)
Story collections
edit- Single, Carefree, Mellow, New York : Alfred A. Knopf (2015)
- Games and Rituals, Games and Rituals (2023)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Allardice, Lisa (7 April 2023). "Katherine Heiny: 'Writing about sex and relationships ends up being about infidelity'". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ a b Thompson, Jessie (16 April 2023). "Katherine Heiny: 'Sometimes people say really eccentric things and it makes me really happy'". The Independent. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ "Standard Deviation". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ Steele, Francesca (1 May 2021). "A meditation on everyday life: Early Morning Riser, by Katherine Heiny, reviewed". The Spectator. Retrieved 25 August 2024.