Short bio
Rachel Cline is a New Yorker who spent most of her thirties in L.A. She intended to write the great American movie and get paid buckets of cash. Instead, she got fired after three episodes of Knots Landing and went on to create the sanitized airline dialog for David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. (“It takes brass buns to sell real estate!”). Her second novel, My Liar, was published in 2008 by Random House.
Long bio: cherchez la mom
Like any daughter with a story to tell, I have a mother who looms large. For the first four years of my life, I was her greatest achievement. Then my brother was born, and then there was her book – which soon eclipsed us both. That book, a layperson’s history of the birth of quantum mechanics, was the product of many years of loud typing behind the bedroom door. Its actual subject matter was beyond me, but by the age of seven I understood that my mother felt about Niels Bohr more or less the way I felt about John Lennon… (more)