Cathleen Schine (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
Cathleen Schine (shin) has carved a niche for herself as a novelist of ideas who gives the genre of the intellectual novel a distinctly feminist slant. Increasingly respected as a novelist, she is also a well-known journalist and cultural commentator.
Schine lived an undramatic suburban childhood marred in her late adolescence by an automobile accident that caused severe facial damage. She went through an extensive period of convalescence, both physical and psychological, which later served as the model for the experience of the title character in her first novel, Alice in...
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