Michele Zackheim's Books
Oct.01.2007
Sophie Marks' path to artistic and personal fulfillment takes her from World War II England to postwar Paris and the Italian countryside. She leaves Europe in 1967 and spends the next two decades in the American Southwest. Acclaimed at last as an artist, she returns to England to confront the hidden memories of her childhood and test the possibilities of a renewed love, a passion...
Jan.19.1999
After five years of travel to Serbian villages wracked by years of strife, painstaking forays into the labyrinth of Central European record-keeping, and hundreds of kitchen-table conversations; after following every lead and every flicker of intuition, and with the support of an international network of women, the author has answered the question of what became of Lieserl Maric...
Jan.19.1996
Violette's Embrace is a multi-layered novel that evokes the remarkable life of Violette Leduc, a brilliant stylist hailed as "France's greatest unknown writer." She was a contemporary of de Beauvoir, Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau, and regarded as "a female Genet" by her admirers and critics alike. A lonely tortured woman, Leduc, who in the face of unrequited...
About Michele
For many years I was a visual artist exhibiting in museums and galleries, both in the United States and Europe. Over time, random words began to appear on my canvases . . . then poems . . . then elaborate fragments of narratives. I began to think more about...
Causes Michele Zackheim Supports
PEN American Center