Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on August 23, 1975 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Sittenfeld was born on August 23 1975 at Cincinnati, Ohio, the second child of four (three girls and one boy). Her mother Elizabeth “Betsy” Curtis (Bascom) is an art historian educator and library librarian at Seven Hills School, a private school located in Cincinnati as well as the father of her, Paul George Sittenfeld, is an investment advisor. The younger sibling, P. G. Sittenfeld is an elected council member on the Cincinnati City Council. She comes from a “half-Catholic, half-Jewish” background.
The first novel she wrote, Prep, which took her three years to complete, was published in 2005 . The story is about a girl named Lee Fiora, from South Bend, Indiana, who attends Ault School, an elite boarder school located near Boston, Massachusetts.
Sittenfeld’s third novel, called American Wife (2008), is the tale of Alice Blackwell, a fictional character who shares many similarities with former First Lady Laura Bush. In November 2011, it was announced that Red Crown Productions had begun work on a film version, with the adaptation written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner.
Sisterland was published on June 25, 2013. The book’s protagonist Kate is an identical twin with psychic powers.
Elissa Schappell who wrote in The New York Times Review of Books: “Sittenfeld’s dialogue is so convincing that one wonders if she didn’t wear a wire under her hockey kilt.” The New York Times named Prep as one among their five top novels of fiction of 2005. Entertainment Weekly labelled Prep a “cult-classic” in a 2018 revision.
