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Marisa Silver (born April 23, 1960) is an American author, screenwriter and film director. Silver was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director. Marisa Silver directed her first film, ''Old Enough'', while she studied at Harvard University. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984, when Silver was 23. Silver went on to direct three more feature films, ''Permanent Record'' (1988), with Keanu Reeves, ''Vital Signs'' (1990) with Diane Lane and Jimmy Smits, and ''He Said, She Said'' (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins. The latter was co-directed with her husband-to-be, Ken Kwapis. After making her career in Hollywood, she switched her profession and entered graduate school to become a short story writer. Her first short story appeared in ''The New Yorker'' magazine in 2000〔("Debut Fiction: The Passenger" ) ''The New Yorker'', June 19, 2000, p. 114. Accessed November 12, 2009〕 and subsequently several more stories have been published there. Silver published the short-story collection, ''Babe in Paradise'', in 2001.〔Veale, Scott. ("New & Noteworthy Paperbacks" ), ''The New York Times'', October 6, 2002. Accessed March 16, 2008.〕 That collection was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a ''Los Angeles Times'' Best Book of the Year. A story from the collection was included in The Best American Short Stories 2000. In 2005, W. W. Norton & Company published her novel, ''No Direction Home''.〔McKenzie, Elizabeth. ("'No Direction Home': Random Family" ), ''The New York Times'', August 14, 2005. Accessed March 16, 2008.〕 Her novel ''The God of War'' was published in April 2008 by Simon & Schuster. She and Kwapis reside in Los Angeles with their two sons. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marisa Silver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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