Jill Ciment

Novelist

Birthday May 20, 1955

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Age 68 years old

Nationality United States

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1953

Jill Ciment (born March 19, 1953) is an American writer.

Ciment was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

She studied art at the California Institute of Arts (CalArts), under John Baldessari.

1975

She earned her BFA from CalArts in 1975.

1981

She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine in 1981.

Ciment is a professor of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

2009

Her novel, Heroic Measures was one of titles chosen by Oprah Winfrey's Book Club for 2009 summer reading.

2010

This book was also one of the top five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for 2010.

2015

5 Flights Up, a film adaptation of Heroic Measures starring Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton, was released in the U.S. on May 8, 2015.

2016

She married artist Arnold Mesches when she was 17 and they were married until his death in 2016.

Her memoir, Half a Life, reflected on their relationship, and following his death and in context of the Me Too movement she is re-examining this work in a new memoir, The Other Half.

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