Background
Kohler, Sheila M. was born on November 13, 1941 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Arrived in the United States, 1981. Daughter of Max Kohler and Sheila M. Bodley.
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Children of Pithiviers
(The children's concentration camp at Pithiviers witnessed...)
The children's concentration camp at Pithiviers witnessed some of the most shameful episodes in the chronicles of occupied France. In 1959, during the course of a summer affair with a haughty French aristocrat, eighteen year-old Dierdre discovers the diary of two Jewish girls kept hidden from the Nazis in his chateau. As love descends into cruelty, the frank depiction of Dierdre's sexual awakening mingles warily, and finally horribly, with the discovery of evil.
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The House On R. Street
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The Perfect Place: A Novel
("A wholly entrancing narrative….Kohler has a fine ear for...)
"A wholly entrancing narrative….Kohler has a fine ear for truth and untruth and the musical possibilities of their interplay."—J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace At a hotel in Switzerland, a mysterious and elegant woman is recovering from an unspecified illness. One day, a man approaches her on the terrace. "You were a friend of Daisy Summers," he says. With that simple statement begins the unraveling of a decades-old mystery and a journey into a mind as fascinatingly intelligent and amoral as readers have seen since Patricia Highsmith unleashed The Talented Mr. Ripley. Other Press is proud to reissue Sheila Kohler's stunning debut novel. In the fifteen years since first publication of The Perfect Place, Kohler has staked her own terrain in a series of unique and seductive novels and short stories that have been internationally acclaimed.
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Stories from Another World
(A new collection of short fiction by the South African au...)
A new collection of short fiction by the South African author whose debut novel was praised by J. M. Coetzee as "wholly entrancing." Sheila Kohler's new stories range from a boarding school in South Africa where a pre-adolescent girl discovers her own mortality when an aging teacher attempts to seduce her, to a remote American mental hospital visited by an idealistic young psychiatrist from the city, to the South African veld where a young physician's confession to his wife of a homosexual affair leads to his death. Kohler's writing is intelligent, sensual, compassionate, always laced with irony and a subtle humor.
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Sheila M. Kohler
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Sorbonne, Paris. Master of Arts, Institute Catholique, Paris. Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, 1983.
Career
Professor New School, New York City, 1996—1999, City College of New York, 2001, Bennington College, 2001—2003, Columbia University, since 2006. Teacher Princeton Spring, 2008.
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Children of Pithiviers
(The children's concentration camp at Pithiviers witnessed...)
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Stories from Another World
(A new collection of short fiction by the South African au...)
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The Perfect Place: A Novel
("A wholly entrancing narrative….Kohler has a fine ear for...)
- The House On R. Street
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Children of Pithiviers
Connections
Married William M. Tucker. Children: Sasha T., Cybele, Brett.
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South African