Katharine Weber

Katharine Weber is a widely published novelist and autobiographer. Before her appointment to the Richard L. Thomas Visiting Chair position at Kenyon College Katharine was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts (2006-2012), Kratz Writer in Residence at Goucher College (2006), a lecturer in fiction writing at Yale (1996-2003), and a visiting lecturer in fiction writing at Connecticut College. She is the author of five novels and a memoir, and is currently writing a novel about a monkey helper.

Katharine has served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and is an Associate Fellow of Calhoun College at Yale University. She was named one of Granta Magazine's "50 Best Young American Novelists" in 1996. In addition to numerous stories and essays published in anthologies, her short fiction has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Story, Boulevard Magenta, and Southwest Review. Her reviews, essays, and journalism have appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review,The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune,The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The London Review of Books, Washington Post Bookworld, Salon.com, The New York Times, and Architectural Digest.

As trustee of the musical legacy of her maternal grandmother Kay Swift, Katharine is also involved in numerous musical projects, most recently a musical adaptation for the stage, with a book by David Caudle and music direction by Aaron Gandy, of her memoir about Kay Swift and George Gershwin, which will be centered on the creation of the hit 1930 Broadway musical "Fine and Dandy."