Background
Her father, Sid Bass, is an oil heir and business executive. Her mother, Anne Hendricks Bass, is a philanthropist and art collector.
Her father, Sid Bass, is an oil heir and business executive. Her mother, Anne Hendricks Bass, is a philanthropist and art collector.
She graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Two polaroid pictures of her taken in 1980, when she was a child, by Andy Warhol were gifted by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to the Princeton University Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2008. In 2000, she was the screenwriter and director of 75 Degrees in July. She published a novel entitled The Embers in 2009.
She took seven years to write lieutenant
In a review for The Book Reporter, Bass was described as "a gifted writer whose storytelling acumen and evocative prose speak to her real potential as a novelist."
She has made charitable contributions to the National Book Foundation, the Sadie Nash Leadership Project, The Marshall Project. She has also funded the documentary Women, War & Peace on Public Broadcasting Service. In 2010, she co-chaired the 23 Annual Stepping Out and Stepping Up Gala organized by the New York Women"s Foundation.
