Jill Eisenstadt

Jill Eisenstadt

Jill Eisenstadt (born June 15, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, teacher and freelance journalist.

Eisenstadt was born in Queens, New York and attended Bennington College, graduating in 1985. She was considered part of the 'Literary Brat Pack' whose members included Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, and Tama Janowitz. [http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=136524] Like her contemporaries at Bennington, she sometimes wrote in a sparse minimalist style influenced by such writers as Raymond Carver and Joan Didion.

Her first novel, "From Rockaway," published by Knopf in 1987, was submitted as her MFA thesis while at Columbia University. The book is a coming-of-age tale about four teenagers from Rockaway Beach in Queens. The protagonist, Alex, escapes the working-class milieux with a scholarship to fictional Camden College (a stand-in for Bennington) while her three friends work menial jobs and live in the now, spending summers lifeguarding and winters doing odd jobs. Eventually the foursome reunites at a beachside party and comes to terms with their diverging lives. "From Rockaway" was translated into six languages and optioned by film director Sydney Pollack.

Eisenstadt followed with a second Knopf novel, "Kiss Out", in 1991. In addition to her longer works, she has contributed short stories, essays, articles, interviews, and book reviews to such publications as "The New York Times", "Vogue", "Mademoiselle", "Elle", "The Boston Review", "New York Magazine", "BKYLN" (where she was an editor), "BOMB" and "Glamour" and to the anthologies "ALTARED: Essays About Modern Weddings" (Anchor Books 2007), "Queens Noir" (Askasic Books, 2007) and "The Best Sex Writing 2008". She collaborated with her sister Debra on the screenplays for the independent films "Daydream Believer" (2001) and "The Limbo Room" (2006) She has also written extensively about the frightening experience of losing her apartment in 1989 to a steam-pipe explosion that contaminated her possessions, including her manuscripts, with asbestos.

elected works

* From Rockaway (1987) ISBN 0-394-55970-3
* Kiss Out (1991) ISBN 0-394-58230-6

External links

* [http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=136524 The Bennington-Knopf Connection, Harvard Crimson, 10/19/1987]
* [http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:6102837&ctrlInfo=Round19%3AMode19b%3ADocG%3AResult&ao= The Selling Of The Young, National Review, 11/20/1987]
* [http://www.nysun.com/article/59130 The Worse Explosion]


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