Background
Silver was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director
Silver was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director
Marisa Silver directed her first film, Old Enough, while she studied at Harvard University.
Silver went on to direct three more feature films, Permanent Record (1988), with Keanu Reeves, Vital Signs (1990) with Diane Lane and Jimmy Smits, and He Said, She Said (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins. After making her career in Hollywood, she switched her profession and entered graduate school to become a short story writer Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2000 and subsequently several more stories have been published there.
Silver published the short-story collection, Babe in Paradise, in 2001.
That collection was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. A story from the collection was included in The Best American Short Stories 2000.
In 2005, West. West. Norton & Company published her novel, Number Direction Home. Her novel The God of War was published in April 2008 by Simon & Schuster.
Her second short-story collection, Alone with You, was published in 2010, and her third novel, Mary Coin, in 2013.