Marti Leimbach

Education

Harvard University.

Career

Her first novel,, was an international bestseller and the basis of the film, Dying Young, starring Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott and Vincent Doctorate"Onofrio. Later she wrote Daniel Isn"t Talking (2006), which by her own admission contains some autobiographical information derived from her real-life experience as a mother of an autistic child. Daniel Isn’t Talking was optioned by Fox 2000 with a film planned for 2010.

Born in Washington, District of Columbia in 1963 to Mary Leimbach, a news reporter, and Leonard Leimbach, who died when the author was four years old.

Marti Leimbach attended Winston Churchill High School, then Harvard University, where she received a Bachelor in English and American Literature and Language. She was a Regent"s Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, where she wrote Dying Young.

Her most recent novel, The Manitoba From Saigon, is published in the United Kingdom by Fourth Estate/Harper Collins in 2009 and in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Random House in 2010. In 2009, Leimbach donated the short story Boys in Cars to Oxfam"s "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of United Kingdom stories written by 38 authors.

Her story was published in the "Earth" collection.

Works

• book

  • Sun Dial Street

    (A novel about surviving life in an eccentric family. It's...)

  • THE MAN FROM SAIGON BY Leimbach, Marti (Author) Anchor Books (publisher) Paperback

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• Other Work

  • Novels Dying Young (1990) Sun Dial Street (1992) Love and Houses (1997) Daniel Isn�t Talking (2006) The Man From Saigon (2009).