Sheri Holman
Sheri Holman | |
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 Holman at Shirley Jackson Award, April 2012 | |
| Born | June 1, 1966 Hanover County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | College of William & Mary |
| Genre | Fiction, Novel, Television |
| Notable works | Witches on the Road Tonight (novel, 2011), The Dress Lodger (novel, 2000) |
Sheri Holman (born June 1, 1966) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
Biography[edit]
Holman was born in Hanover County, Virginia. Following graduation from the College of William & Mary in 1988 with a degree in theatre, she moved to New York. After transitioning from acting to various positions in the publishing industry, including several years as a temp at Penguin Books, Holman became the assistant to literary agent Molly Friedrich.[1] It was during this time that she began writing her first novel, A Stolen Tongue, a mystery set along the route of a fifteenth-century religious pilgrimage. The debut novel was published by Grove/Atlantic in 1997 and subsequently translated into thirteen languages. This was followed by the bestselling[2] The Dress Lodger, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000, and a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
After publishing a young adult title in 2002, Holman returned with The Mammoth Cheese in 2003, which was a finalist for the UK Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel is Witches on the Road Tonight, named a New York Times Editors' Choice[3] and to the best fiction of 2011 lists of the Boston Globe[4] and The Globe and Mail.[5] She is at work on a new novel involving a pediatric health worker in Eldoret, Kenya.[6]
Holman was a writer and co-executive producer for the 2022-23 Showtime drama miniseries George & Tammy, and writer and executive producer on Palm Royale on Apple TV+.
In 2020, Holman was writer/producer on Filthy Rich, as well as the Fox 21 Television Studios/National Geographic Channel series Barkskins, based on the Annie Proulx novel.[7] She spent three seasons writing on Longmire for Warner Horizon Television, which premiered on Netflix in Fall, 2015.[8] She served as a staff writer on Emerald City on NBC.[9] The Crooked Road, her television adaptation of Witches on the Road Tonight, is in development by Universal Television. Holman teaches in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch[10]
She is a founding member[11] of the storytelling collective The Moth and serves on its curatorial board. Her stories have been featured on The Moth Podcast and the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour.
Holman lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.[12]
Bibliography[edit]
- Novels
- A Stolen Tongue (1997)
- The Dress Lodger (2000)
- The Mammoth Cheese (2003)
- Witches on the Road Tonight (2011) Shirley Jackson Award Best Novel.
- Children's literature
- Sondok: Princess of the Moon And Stars (2002)
- Selected short works
- "Sheri Holman: An Author's Pilgrimage" in Boldtype (February, 1998)
- "Letters from Exile: Styron's Havanas in Camelot" in The Barnes and Noble Review (June 9, 2008)
- "Rescue Mission" in The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships (2009)
- "The Starvation Experiment" in Exotic Gothic 5, Vol. I (2013)
- "The Divide" in My First Novel: Tales of Woe and Glory (2013)
Awards[edit]
- Orange Prize for Fiction, Best Novel shortlist (2005): The Mammoth Cheese[13]
- Shirley Jackson Award, Best Novel (2011): Witches on the Road Tonight
- Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal, Literary Fiction (2011): Witches on the Road Tonight[14]
References[edit]
- ^ "The Quivering Pen". Archived from the original on 22 October 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Publishers Weekly profile
- ^ "Editors' Choice". The New York Times. 3 April 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Best fiction books of 2011 Archived 2015-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Globe 100: The very best books of 2011". The Globe and Mail. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Sally Test Pediatric Center -- a glimpse into the new novel". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Sheri Holman: Television
- ^ "PowderKeg Writers". 14 November 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Staff, Hollywood.com (5 February 2015). "Emerald City - TV Series - 2016". Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Tisch Directory".
- ^ Celebrating 15 Years of The Moth Archived 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fear & Its Monsters: An Interview with Sheri Holman
- ^ "Orange Prize 2005 - Special Reports - guardian.co.uk Books". Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Independent Publisher: THE Voice of the Independent Publishing Industry". Retrieved 6 February 2017.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Sheri Holman at IMDb
- Video of Rescue Mission (2009) performed by Sheri Holman at The Moth Manthropology: Stories About Men
- Video of Holman performing Between the Lines (2000) at The Moth Southern Stories series
- Audio of Holman performing in Something is Eternal: The Moth at Green-Wood Cemetery (2014)
- Reading by Holman from Witches on the Road Tonight (audio with transcript) at The Moonlit Road
- Summer 2003 interview at Barnes & Noble (bn.com at The Internet Archive)
- Article on Sheri Holman
- Sheri Holman at Library of Congress, with 5 library catalog records
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| National | |
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- College of William & Mary alumni
- People from Hanover County, Virginia
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Novelists from New York City
- Novelists from Virginia
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women screenwriters
- American television writers
- American women television writers