Elyse Schein


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Elyse Schein

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born October 09, 1968
gender female
place of birth New York City, United States
website http://www.elyseschein.com
genre Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

about this author

Elyse Schein is a writer and filmmaker whose short films "Je Vole Le Bonheur" and "Private Dick" have been shown at the Telluride Film Festival and at cinemas in Prague and San Francisco. A graduate of Stony Brook University, she studied film at FAMU, Prague’s Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts. She has also worked as an English teacher, photographer, and translator. Schein lives in Brooklyn.

"Identical Strangers," the nonfiction book she co-wrote with Paula Bernstein, was published by Random House in 2007.

books by Elyse Schein

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avg rating: 3.55 | 311 ratings | 1 distinct work
Identical Strangers: A Memoir ... Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited (Hardcover)
by Elyse Schein (goodreads author!), Paula Bernstein
avg rating 3.54 — 302 ratings — published 2007
3 editions
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Interpreter of Malad... 06/16 Elyse is currently reading:
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
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Slouching Towards Be... 11/02 Elyse is currently reading:
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (Paperback)
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."Dr. Seuss
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"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."Emily Dickinson
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."Anais Nin
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir (Paperback)
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
Dr. Seuss

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"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
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"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
Emily Dickinson




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from Daniel
11/20/2007 03:51PM

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Elyse, I added your book to my to-read list.
Good luck in this literary jungle!












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