Simon Marcus

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Kate Wenner
grew up in California in the Cold War 1950s, 
went off to boarding school in Vermont, and then on to college at
Harvard.  After freshman year, she took
time off and volunteered to work in a communal farming village in Tanzania.  Or her return she wrote a memoir of her
African experience, SHAMBA LETU: An American Girl’s Adventure in Africa
(Houghton Mifflin: 1970)  During this
period she also became deeply involved in the antiwar movement and in community
organizing in the Boston area.

In her
senior year Kate was awarded a Michael Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship and
spent a year and a half traveling throughout Central and South America,
including an eleven-month stay in a small village high in the Andes in Peru.  Back in the United States she taught
creative writing to prison inmates and women’s groups, then moved to New York
City to begin a twenty year career as a journalist. She wrote for various
publications, created an offbeat inquiring photographer column for the Village
Voice, developed a new magazine for college students in conjunction with
Rolling Stone Magazine, and then settled in for fourteen years as an
award-winning producer for the television newsmagazine ABC 20/20.  She produced profiles as diverse as Stephen
Hawking to the real-life Madame Butterfly, as well as ground-breaking reports
on such things as the life-long impact of fetal alcohol syndrome.  Some of her pieces led to new national
legislation, and some became the basis of motion pictures.

In 1996 Kate
left 20/20 to write fiction full time. 
Her first novel, SETTING FIRES (Scribner 2000, Berkley Signature 2002), grew
out of a family secret she learned from her father’s in videotaped
conversations with him shortly before he died of cancer.  In conjunction with the publication of
SETTING FIRES, Kate edited those videotaped conversations into a half-hour
documentary film, “Time With My Father.” Over the last two years she has
traveled extensively showing her film and speaking to Jewish audiences both about
her father’s journey of reconciliation and of her own journey back to
Judaism.   Kate’s second novel, DANCING
WITH EINSTEIN (Scribner 2004), came from her childhood fear of the atom bomb.  Kate and her husband, artist Gil Eisner, live
in New York City and the Berkshires and are the parents of two college-age
children.

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