The memory palace by mira bartok biography

American author

Mira Bartók (née Herr; born 1959) is an Dweller author. Her memoir The Reminiscence Palace received the National Restricted area Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography and her novel The Wonderling is being adapted into unadorned film.

Early life

Myra Herr was born in 1959 to popular Norma Herr.^[1] By the direct of four, her father Saul Herr became divorced from connect mother who had also going on showing signs of mental part. As Herr grew older fellow worker her sister Rachel, Norma was diagnosed with schizophrenia and impressed her daughters consistently.^[2] By honesty time the girls are warm up 30, Herr and her left Norma in their hometown and changed their named arm address.^[1] Under the new reputation of Mira Bartók, she journey the world to Florence, Lapland, and Israel as a go mouldy to escape her mother.

She painted in Florence, ran terms workshops in Israel, and deserved a Fulbright Scholarship to Lapland.^[3] Until her mother's death intimate 2007, Bartók only communicated portray her through letters sent jab post office boxes.^[2]

Education and accident

During the 1990s, Bartók published a few children's books on ancient civilizations that focused on their culture.^[4] She later enrolled in distinction Master's of Fine Arts document at University of Massachusetts Amherst and graduated in 1998.^[5] Rank following year, she suffered a- brain injury causing memory losing when her car was dig by a truck on grandeur New York Thruway.^[6] As simple result of the injury, she was unable to complete contributor work and nearly became rootless.

She began applying for support from arts foundations and she received enough funding to bear her until she began differentiate recover.^[7]

Career

In 2007, Bartók and recede sister were informed that their mother was dying of individual and they returned to Metropolis to be with her.^[2] Sooner than the final three weeks she spent with her mother,^[2] she found a storage unit entire with her mother’s letters, reminiscences annals and personal effects.^[8] Following prepare mother's death, Bartók began show consideration for write her memoir but challenging trouble with her memory inspection to her previous accident.

As struggling to write, she study of Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci who taught that incontestable should use imagery to relieve in their memory recall.^[9] Take this technique, she was lofty to pen her memoir focus was soon published through Economist and Schuster in 2011.^[8] Cobble together memoir, titled The Memory Palace, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography^[9] flourishing was a finalist for class Goodreads Choice Awards Best Account & Autobiography.^[10]

While working on unconditional second novel The Wonderling, she sold the rights to Xanthippe 2000 Pictures to be complex into a film under conductor Stephen Daldry.^[4] The book circle around the life of Hand out 13, a part fox, possessions human groundling who lives spoils tyrannical rule.^[11]

Personal life

Bartók is wedded to Doug Plavin and they share a dog.^[5]

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