Scholarship and Biography

PUBLICATION:

Novels

The Object of My Affection (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--1988)

The Easy Way Out (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--1992)

The Man of the House (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--1996)

True Enough (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--2001)

Alternatives to Sex (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--2006)

Insignificant Others (Simon and Schuster--2010)

Tales from the Yoga Studio by Rain Mitchell (Penguin-Plume --2011)

Head Over Heels by Rain Mitchell (Penguin-Plume--2013)

My Ex-Life (Flatiron Books--2018)

You Only Call When You're in Trouble (Henry Holt and Company--2024)


Film adaptations of The Object of My Affection (20th Century Fox, 1998, directed by Nicholas Hytner/screenplay by Wendy Wasserstein--Jennifer Anniston, Paul Rudd, Alsion Janey.)


True Enough (In French--La Verite Ou Presque--Films A4, 2007, directed by Sam Karman, screenplay by Sam Karman--Karin Viard, Andre Dussolier, George Cluzet.)


The Easy Way Out (In French--L'Art de la Fugue--Herodiade Films, 2015, directed by Brice Cauvin, screenplay by Brice Cauvin, script consultant Stephen McCauley--Agnes Jaoui, Marie-Christine Barrault, Lauren Lafitte.)



Fiction, articles, personal essays, and reviews in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, Harpers, Vanity Fair and other publications.

Link

professional website

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of the Practice of English and Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Brandeis University

Co-Director of Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Brandeis University

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
M.F.A.
University of Vermont
B.A.