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Katharine Weber was born on 12 November, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA, is an American novelist and writer (born 1955). Discover Katharine Weber's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
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Katharine Weber Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Katharine Weber's Husband?
Her husband is Nicholas Fox Weber (m. 1976)
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Katharine Weber Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Katharine Weber worth at the age of 68 years old? Katharine Weber’s income source is mostly from being a successful novelist. She is from United States. We have estimated Katharine Weber's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Weber was born in New York City, the daughter of Andrea (née Warburg; 9/29/1922-1/18/2009) and Sidney Kaufman (died 1983).
Her maternal grandmother was composer Kay Swift and her grandfather was banker James Warburg.
She grew up in the Forest Hills Gardens section of Queens, New York.
Katharine Weber (born November 12, 1955) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.
She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Yale University, Goucher College, the Paris Writers Workshop and elsewhere.
She attended The Kew-Forest School and Forest Hills High School before attending the Freshman Year Program at The New School for Social Research (now Eugene Lang College at New School University) in 1972.
In 1976, she married Nicholas Fox Weber, cultural historian and Executive Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and moved to Connecticut.
In 1981 and 1983, their two daughters, Lucy and Charlotte, were born.
From 1982 to 1984, Weber attended Yale as a part-time undergraduate.
Since Swift's death in 1993, Weber has been a Trustee and the Administrator of the Kay Swift Memorial Trust.
In January 1993, the short story "Friend of the Family", her fiction debut in print, appeared in The New Yorker.
Her short fiction has appeared in Story, Redbook, Southwest Review, Gargoyle, The Connecticut Review, the Vestal Review, Boulevard Magenta "five Chapters," and elsewhere.
Her short story "Sleeping", originally in Vestal Review and anthologized several times, was made into a short dramatic film by Group-Six Productions.
Her first novel, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, was published in 1995.
She was named by Granta to the controversial list of 50 Best Young American Novelists in 1996.
In 1996 Katharine Weber was named by Granta to the controversial list of 50 Best Young American Novelists.
All three of her first novels, Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear,
The Music Lesson, and The Little Women, were identified as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review.
Winner of numerous awards for her work, Weber has been hailed as "a brilliant and ingenious formalist" Her most celebrated book, Triangle, has been described as "a marvel of ingenuity... a wide-awake novel as powerful as it is persuasive"
Her second novel, The Music Lesson, was published in 1999 and has since been translated into thirteen foreign languages.
It was a selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.
From 2001 to 2003 Weber was elected to a term on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
Her third novel, The Little Women, a Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize, was published 2003.
All three novels have been named Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review.
In 2004 Weber was artistic advisor for a restoration recording project with the non-profit label PS Classics which resulted in the release of a CD of the complete score, with Broadway performers and an orchestra conducted by Aaron Gandy, of the 1930 hit Broadway musical Fine and Dandy.
In 2006 her fourth novel, Triangle, which is about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, was published.
It won the 2007 Connecticut Book Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2008 International Dublin Literary Award.
Her fifth novel, True Confections, was published in January, 2010.
In July 2011, a memoir called The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities, was published by Crown, and in a paperback edition in June 2012 by Broadway Books.
She held the Visiting Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing at Kenyon College from 2012 to 2019.
In 2012 she was appointed to the Visiting Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing at Kenyon College.
She is a Senior Editor at The Kenyon Review, and served as final judge for the Kenyon Review 2013 and 2014 Short Fiction Contests.
She was on the Editorial Advisory Board of American Imago 2016-2019.
She has written book reviews, essays, and columns for several publications, including the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The London Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Haven Register, The New Leader, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Vogue and Washington Post Bookworld.
Weber has taught fiction writing at Yale University, Goucher College, the Paris Writers Workshop and elsewhere, including her service as a graduate thesis advisor in the writing program at the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
Her sixth novel, Still Life With Monkey, was published by Paul Dry Books in 2018.
"Jane of Hearts and Other Stories" was published by Paul Dry Books in March 2022.
Her literary essays have appeared in numerous recent anthologies.