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Marisa Silver

(b.1960)

Marisa Silver is an American author, screenwriter and film director.

Silver was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy

New and upcoming books

September 2025

At Last

Novels

   No Direction Home (2005)
   The God of War (2008)
   Mary Coin (2013)
   Little Nothing (2016)
   The Mysteries (2021)
   At Last (2025)

Collections

Babe in Paradise (2001)
Alone with You (2010)

Books containing stories by Marisa Silver

Astoria to Zion (2014)
Twenty-six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade

The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and Barbara Kingsolver

Award nominations

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The God of War

Marisa Silver recommends

Easy to Slip (2025)
Cal Hoffman
"With prose that is granularly precise and almost unnervingly intimate, Cal Hoffman's Easy to Slip draws us deep inside the mind of a young man as he struggles against psychosis. Hoffman renders his characters' experience with such visceral honesty that a reader cannot help but feel the terrible cost of the battle and the triumph of the hard-won victory."

Who You Might Be (2022)
Leigh N Gallagher
"I read Who You Might Be with my heart beating at a different register because I knew I was in the presence of a writer who knows how to match an acrobatic and singular use of language to the density of human complexity. Gallagher enlivens worlds and characters with an observational eye and ear tuned to frequencies most of us don't see and hear."

Mouth to Mouth (2022)
Antoine Wilson
"The sinewy and mesmerizing narrative of Antoine Wilson's masterful novel aims straight at the heart of the mythologized self, which, like the world of art and commerce that provides the story's backdrop, trades in all forms of performance and deception. Not unlike the novel itself, which asks us to believe and doubt and then believe again within the space of a single sentence. Wilson's on a high wire and he never makes a wrong move."

Zorrie (2021)
Laird Hunt
"With patience, precision and language so clear and generous, you feel as if you are being handed a precious and fragile truth, Laird Hunt brings us an indelible portrait of a twentieth century American woman. Zorrie travels through her years with a straightforward decency that nevertheless does not shield her from harm, heartbreak, yearning, and a hard-won recognition of joy. It takes Hunt only a hundred and fifty pages to take us from one end of Zorrie's life to the other, and yet I closed the book feeling that I had read an epic."

The End of the Day (2020)
Bill Clegg
"In his utterly absorbing and socially trenchant novel, Bill Clegg's vision is both intimate and grand. He paints precise and unerring portraits of his characters and the dynamics of class that inform their lives while at the same time asking sweeping and urgent questions: What is fate? What responsibilities do we bear for the way in which our actions and our passions alter the course of one another's lives? The novel's shattering resonance emerges from its masterful construction. Clegg leads us, and his characters, toward the discovery of long-buried secrets at the same time that he shows us that the facts of a life do not always add up to the truth."

A Student of History (2019)
Nina Revoyr
"Nina Revoyr is one of Los Angeles's most sharp-eyed and penetrating chroniclers, and A Student of History only furthers her reputation. Party mystery, part sentimental education, this is a searing novel of thought-provoking complexity."

The Study of Animal Languages (2019)
Lindsay Stern
"Written with fearless emotional precision...I'd say that this novel was an auspicious debut were it not for the fact that Stern seems to have appeared fully formed as a writer, alert to our weaknesses, our moral missteps and the ways in which the mind and the heart so often work at cross-purposes."

The Stranger Game (2018)
Peter Gadol
"Like the best Highsmith and Hitchcock rolled into one, The Stranger Game is a compulsively absorbing and thought-provoking triumph."

Desperate Characters (1970)
Paula Fox
"Fox dissects a marriage and a social class with the sharpest of knives, cannily undermining not only one couple’s false pieties and deceptive comforts but our own as well."

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