# Jane Bernstein > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jane_Bernstein > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jane_Bernstein.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Bernstein > Source revision: 1308947601 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American writer}} {{infobox writer |name=Jane Bernstein |birth_date={{birth date and age|1949|6|10}} |birth_place=[New York City](/source/New_York_City), U.S. |occupation={{flatlist| *Writer *novelist }} |education=[New York University](/source/New_York_University) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))
[Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) ([MFA](/source/Master_of_Fine_Arts)) |website={{URL|https://janebernstein.net/}} }} '''Jane Bernstein''' (born June 10, 1949) is an American writer and novelist. ==Biography== Born in Brooklyn, Bernstein received her Bachelor of Arts at New York University and her Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University. She is a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where she has taught since 1991. She lives in Pittsburgh with Jeffrey F. Cohn, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and she is the mother of Rachel Glynn and filmmaker Charlotte Glynn. ==Other works== Her short works have been widely published in journals and magazines, including ''The New York Times Magazine'',[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/magazine/lives-victim-of-circumstance.html?pagewanted=1 Lives; Victim of Circumstance] April 2, 2000, New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2010-03-10.[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07lives-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin Lives; Independent Means] October 7, 2007, New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2010-03-10. ''Glamour'', ''Fourth Genre'', ''Creative Nonfiction'', and ''Massachusetts Review''. From 1974 to 1993, she worked as a screenwriter. Her co-written screenplay for ''[Seven Minutes in Heaven](/source/Seven_Minutes_in_Heaven_(film))'' was released by [Warner Brothers](/source/Warner_Brothers) in 1986. The movie won a Special Merit Award at the U.S. Film Festival in Santa Barbara, California in 1987 and an audience award at the [Sundance Film Festival](/source/Sundance_Film_Festival) in 1986. ==Fellowships and awards== Bernstein was twice the recipient of a [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) Fellowship in Creative Writing, in 1982–1983 and in 2000–2001. She was awarded a [Pennsylvania Council on the Arts](/source/Pennsylvania_Council_on_the_Arts) Fellowship in Media Arts in 1995 and in Creative Writing in 2002. Other fellowships and awards include two [New Jersey State Council on the Arts](/source/New_Jersey_State_Council_on_the_Arts) Fellowships, and in 2004, a [Fulbright Fellowship](/source/Fulbright_Program), which she spent at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. Awards for her essays include The Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing in 2001. ==Books== * ''Departures'', Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979, {{ISBN|978-0-03-048216-8}} * ''Seven Minutes in Heaven'', Fawcett Juniper, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-449-70139-3}} * ''Loving Rachel: a family's journey from grief'', Little, Brown, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-316-09204-3}} * ''Bereft – A Sister’s Story'', North Point Press, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-86547-586-1}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=se2ZeGXebHoC&q=Jane+Bernstein ''Rachel in the World''], University of Illinois Press, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-252-03253-0}} * ''Second Lives - Tales from Two Cities'', Jane Bernstein and Rodge Glass, eds., Cargo Publishing, 2012, {{ISBN|978-1908885029}} * ''Gina from Siberia'', with Charlotte Glynn, illustrations by Anna Desnitskaya, Animal Media Group, 2018, {{ISBN|978-1947895003}} * ''The Face Tells the Secret'', Regal House, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1947548787}} ==Trivia== In the summer of 1977, while helping director [Jonathan Kaplan](/source/Jonathan_Kaplan) cast the film ''[Over the Edge](/source/Over_the_Edge_(film))'', a teen rebellion film released in 1979, she met [Matt Dillon](/source/Matt_Dillon) at the Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont, New York, thus launching his acting career.[https://archive.today/20130105041330/http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n9/htdocs/over-the-edge-134.php?page=3 Over the Edge: An Oral History of the Greatest Teen Rebellion Movie of All Time] September 2009, Vice Magazine. Retrieved 2010-03-10. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2010}} ==External links== * [http://www.janebernstein.net/ Jane Bernstein web site.] * [http://www.janebernstein.net/npr.htm Transcript of NPR Interview about her memoir ''Bereft''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322175815/http://www.janebernstein.net/npr.htm |date=2011-03-22 }} * [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/books/reviews/5358537.html Houston Chronicle Review of ''Rachel in the World'', December 6, 2007.] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernstein, Jane}} Category:1949 births Category:20th-century American novelists Category:Carnegie Mellon University faculty Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Category:Living people Category:New York University alumni Category:Writers from Brooklyn Category:21st-century American novelists Category:20th-century American women novelists Category:21st-century American women novelists Category:Novelists from Pennsylvania Category:Novelists from New York (state) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jane Bernstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Bernstein) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Bernstein?action=history)). 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