Jill Ciment

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Jill Ciment
Born (1953-03-19) March 19, 1953 (age 71)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation Memoirist, novelist, and professor
Nationality American

Jill Ciment (born March 19, 1953) is an American writer.

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Biography

Ciment was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She studied art at the California Institute of Arts (CalArts), under John Baldessari. [1] She earned her BFA from CalArts in 1975. [2] She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine in 1981. [3]

Ciment is a professor of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Her novel, Heroic Measures, was one of titles chosen by Oprah Winfrey's Book Club for 2009 summer reading. [4] The book was also one of the top five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for 2010. [5] 5 Flights Up , a film adaptation of Heroic Measures starring Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton, was released in the U.S. on May 8, 2015.

She began an affair with her art teacher, Arnold Mesches, when she was 17 and in his class. He was 47, and married with two children. They moved in together the following year, married, and were together until his death in 2016. [6] Her memoir, Half a Life, reflected on their relationship together and was published in 1996. Following Arnold's death and in context of the Me Too movement, she re-examined their almost 50 year relationship with a new memoir, Consent. [7]

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References

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  6. Alter, Alexandra (2024-06-10). "At 17, She Fell in Love With a 47-Year-Old. Now She Questions the Story". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-07-05.
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  8. "Directory of Artists' Fellows, 1985-2013" (PDF). www.nyfa.org. New York Foundation for the Arts. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  9. "Half a life is a long phone call from a friend (Review)", The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), 1996 Quote from source: She has ... received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and others.
  10. "Jill Ciment". www.gf.org. 2006. Archived from the original on January 4, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  11. "Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize—Past Recipients". www.rochester.edu. 2005. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  12. Ciment, Jill (1993). The law of falling bodies . New York: Poseidon Press. ISBN   0-671-79451-5. OCLC   26588628.
  13. Ciment, Jill (1999). Teeth of the dog : a novel (1st ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN   0-517-70202-9. OCLC   39180866.
  14. Ciment, Jill (2005). The tattoo artist (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN   0-375-42325-7. OCLC   57283791.
  15. Ciment, Jill (2015). Heroic measures. London. ISBN   978-1-78227-194-9. OCLC   938790734.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. Ciment, Jill (2015). Act of God . New York. ISBN   978-0-307-91170-4. OCLC   881406944.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. Rich, A. J. (7 July 2015). The hand that feeds you. New York. ISBN   978-1-4767-7458-9. OCLC   900158232.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. Ciment, Jill (2019). The body in question : a novel (First ed.). New York. ISBN   978-1-5247-4798-5. OCLC   1049577535.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  19. Ciment, Jill (1997). Half a life (1st Anchor Books ed.). New York: Anchor Books. ISBN   0-385-48891-2. OCLC   36501398.
  20. Ciment, Jill (2024). Consent: A Memoir. Pantheon. ISBN   978-0593701065.