Katherine B. Weissman writes fiction (her stories have been published in Seventeen, Ploughshares and Southwest Review, where she was awarded the 2017 Meyerson Prize for Fiction), essays and style features (she was a contributing editor at O, the Oprah Magazine for 10 years). She has an essay, "It Figures," in the book IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME: 32 Women on Life After 50. Until 1998 she was executive editor of Mademoiselle, where she worked for 18 years.

Katherine has been reading since the age of four (and writing almost as long) and feels secure only if she has a pile of unread books by her bed and many, many more on her shelves, plus a library card. She has not gone over to the Dark Side all the way, but she does currently own three Kindles, which are a means to instant book gratification and permanent book security when not within reach of the aforementioned piles, shelves and libraries.

Her original essays and blog posts, as well as an archive of her traditionally published work (including reviews on Bookreporter.com), may be found on her website, www.KatherineWeissman.com. She is an ardent student of ballet, art and the piano. Her favorite novels (a partial list) include A PASSAGE TO INDIA, THE LEOPARD, ANNA KARENINA, JANE EYRE, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS and THE RAJ QUARTET. She also adores fantasy: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and, of course, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and the newish Book of Dust saga.

Katherine had a month-long arts residency in 2019 at the peerless and beautiful Ragdale Foundation and is currently working on stories, perhaps a novel, having to do with families, aging and islands.

Reviews by Katherine B. Weissman

Love Anthony

by Lisa Genova - Fiction

From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova comes a heartfelt novel in the vein of Jodi Picoult, about an accidental friendship that helps a grieving mother understand the thoughts of her autistic son.

The Red Book

by Deborah Copaken - Fiction

The London Train

by Tessa Hadley - Fiction

Things I Want My Daughters to Know

by Elizabeth Noble

The Hand That First Held Mine

by Maggie O’Farrell - Fiction

Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, Lexie Sinclair plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love.

Unless

by Carol Shields - Fiction

A Thread of Grace

by Mary Doria Russell - Fiction, Historical Fiction

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.

Testimony

by Anita Shreve - Fiction

The Swan Thieves

by Elizabeth Kostova - Fiction

Songs Without Words

by Ann Packer - Fiction