Hyatt Bass

{{Short description|American heiress}} {{Lead too short|date=May 2024}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Hyatt Bass | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = June 11, 1969 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Princeton University (AB) | occupation = Novelist | title = | spouse = Josh Klausner | children = 2 | parents = Sid Bass Anne Hendricks Bass | relatives = Lee Bass (uncle) Ed Bass (uncle) Robert Bass (uncle) Perry Richardson Bass (paternal grandfather) Nancy Lee Bass (paternal grandmother) Sid W. Richardson (paternal great-granduncle) }} '''Hyatt Bass''' (born 1969) is an American novelist who wrote several books, including The Embers.

==Early life and education== Her father, Sid Bass, is an oil heir and business executive.<ref name="bloomberg">Laurie Muchnick, [https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLfRyxpjsoO8 Hyatt Bass, Sid’s Daughter, Pens Dad With Big Ego: Book Review], ''Bloomberg'', July 14, 2009</ref> Her mother, Anne Hendricks Bass, was a philanthropist and art collector.<ref name="bloomberg"/> Her parents divorced in 1986.<ref name="bloomberg"/> Two polaroid pictures of her taken in 1980, when she was a child, by Andy Warhol were gifted by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to the Princeton University Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2008.<ref name="princetonmuseum">{{cite web|url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/56156|title=Hyatt Bass (2008-244)|author=|date=|website=artmuseum.princeton.edu|accessdate=18 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pafa.org/collection|title=The Collection - PAFA's Collection|author=|date=|website=www.pafa.org|accessdate=18 January 2019}}</ref>

She graduated from Fort Worth Country Day in 1987. She graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1991 after completing an 85-page-long senior thesis titled "Gender Versus Genre: Representations of Women in Five Films [<nowiki/>Notorious, Desperately Seeking Susan, Born in Flames, Illusions and Streetwise]."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bass|first=Hyatt|date=1991|title=Gender Versus Genre: Representations of Women in Five Films [''Notorious'', ''Desperately Seeking Susan'', ''Born in Flames'', ''Illusions'' and ''Streetwise'']|url=http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp018g84mn65x}}</ref><ref name="americantowns">[https://archive.today/20141207032829/http://www.americantowns.com/ct/kent/news/author-and-film-producer-hyatt-bass-will-speak-about-her-new-novel-the-embers-217212 Author and Film Producer Hyatt Bass will Speak About Her New Novel ‘The Embers’], ''American Towns'', September 28, 2009</ref>

==Career== In 2000, she was the screenwriter and director of ''75 Degrees in July''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003875/|title=Hyatt Bass|author=|date=|website=IMDb|accessdate=18 January 2019}}</ref>

She published a novel entitled ''The Embers'' in 2009.<ref name="vogueandreleon">Andre Leon Talley, [http://www.vogue.com/871935/vd-literary-pursuit/ Literary Pursuits] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223617/http://www.vogue.com/871935/vd-literary-pursuit/ |date=2016-03-03 }}, ''Vogue'', July 7, 2009</ref> The novel is about Laura and Joel Ascher, two Manhattanites whose marriage ends in divorce after their son Thomas dies.<ref name="bloomberg"/> Fifteen years later, they reunite for their daughter Emily's wedding.<ref name="bloomberg"/> In a review for ''The Book Reporter'', Bass was described as "a gifted writer whose storytelling acumen and evocative prose speak to her real potential as a novelist."<ref name="norahpiehl">Norah Piehl, [http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-embers The Embers by Hyatt Bass], ''The Book Reporter'', January 21, 2011</ref>

==Wealth== In 2007, ''Vanity Fair'' reported that "as of some years ago", Hyatt and her sister Samantha had trust funds of US$280 million each.<ref name=VanityFair>{{cite magazine|last1=Shnayerson|first1=Michael|title=Something Happened At Anne's!|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2007/08/michael-shnayerson-anne-bass-attack-200708|accessdate=10 November 2015|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=August 2007}}</ref>

==Personal life== She is married to Josh Klausner, and she has two sons.<ref name="vogueandreleon"/> They live in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, in New York City.<ref name="nytimes">Julie Satow, [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/realestate/palaces-in-the-making.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Palaces-in-the-Making], ''The New York Times'', October 24, 2013</ref>

==Bibliography== *Hyatt Bass. ''The Embers''. New York City: Henry Holt and Co.. 2009. 304 pages.

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==External links== *[http://hyattbass.com/ Official website]

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