Laura Kasischke





Laura Kasischke

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Laura Kasischke (born 1961) is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as several Pushcart Prizes.

Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Kasischke's work is particularly well-received in France, where she is widely read in translation. Her novel A moi pour toujou...more


Average rating: 3.45 · 6,023 ratings · 1,369 reviews · 26 distinct works · Similar authors
In a Perfect World
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 1,309 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
The Raising
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 1,307 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions
The Life Before Her Eyes
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 804 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions
Feathered
3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
Space, in Chains
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
Boy Heaven
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
Be Mine
3.04 of 5 stars 3.04 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
Suspicious River
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
White Bird in a Blizzard: A...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
Eden Springs
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.”
Laura Kasischke, The Raising

“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”
Laura Kasischke

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”
Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

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