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Catherine Ryan Hyde (born 1955) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her novels have enjoyed bestseller status in both the U.S. and U.K., and her short stories have won many awards and honors. Her book Pay It Forward was adapted into a movie and her novel Electric God is currently in development.

Life

She has served on the 1998 fiction fellowship panel of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and on the editorial staff of the Santa Barbara Review and Central Coast Magazine. She teaches workshops at the Santa Barbara,[1] La Jolla, and Central Coast Writers Conferences.

She is founder and president of the Pay It Forward Foundation.[2] As a professional public speaker she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University,[3] met with Americorps members at the White House, and shared a dais with Bill Clinton.[4]

She lives in Cambria, California.[5]

Career

Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, Ploughshares,[6] and Glimmer Train.

The movie Pay It Forward (Warner Brothers) was released in 2000, and starred Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment. The book has been translated into twenty languages for publication in more than thirty countries, and was chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults in 2001 by the American Library Association. The paperback was released in 1999 by Pocket Books and quickly became a national bestseller.

The April 20th, 2005 edition of Variety announced that Nicolas Cage has signed on to play Hayden Reese in the film adaptation of Electric God.

Two of her stories have been honored in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. She received second place in the 1998 Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Nearly a dozen of her stories have been nominated for Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Award, and The Pushcart Prize.

Works

Bibliography

  • Funerals for Horses. Russian Hill Press. 1997. ISBN 9780965352437.
  • Earthquake Weather. Russian Hill Press. 1998. ISBN 9780965352475.
  • Pay it Forward. Simon & Schuster. 1999. ISBN 9780743203890.
  • Electric God (Simon & Schuster 2000) reprint 2002, ISBN 9780743437561
  • Walter’s Purple Heart. Simon & Schuster. 2002. ISBN 9780684867236.
  • Becoming Chloe. Random House, Inc. 2006. ISBN 9780375832581.
  • Love in the Present Tense (Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press Summer 2006)
  • The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance. Random House, Inc. 2007. ISBN 9780375832574.
  • Chasing Windmills. Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press. Spring 2008. ISBN 9780307279385. (reprint Random House, Inc., 2009 ISBN 9780307279385)
  • The Day I Killed James. Random House, Inc. 2008. ISBN 9780375841583.
  • Love in the Present Tense. Random House, Inc. 2007. ISBN 9780307276711.
  • Diary of a Witness. Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated. 2009. ISBN 9780375956843.
  • When I Found You. Black Swan. 2009. ISBN 9780552775724.
  • Jumpstart the World. Knopf. 2010. ISBN 9780375866654.
  • Second Hand Heart. Transworld UK. 2010. ISBN 0552776629.
  • Don't Let Me Go. Transworld UK. 2011. ISBN 055277667X.
  • Second Hand Heart. Andrea Brown Literary Agency. 2011. ISBN 1463630778.
  • When I Found You. Andrea Brown Literary Agency. 2011. ISBN 1466389907.

Anthologies

References

  1. ^ * "The Early Years: Catherine Ryan Hyde", The Writer Magazine, Marla Miller, Jan. 19, 2007
  2. ^ http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/
  3. ^ "Author describes what led to her 'Pay It Forward' novel and film", Cornell Chronicle, Stephanie Li
  4. ^ "Catherine Ryan Hyde", ISB
  5. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59752
  6. ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=6516
  7. ^ http://www.thebark.com/content/dog-my-co-pilot-contents

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