Sheila
Kohler

Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She later lived in Paris for fifteen years, where she married and completed her undergraduate degree in literature at the Sorbonne and a graduate degree in psychology at the Institut Catholique. She moved to the United States in 1981 and earned an MFA in writing at Columbia University. She is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including the novels Cracks, Becoming Jane Eyre, and Dreaming For Freud, three short story collections, and her memoir Once We Were Sisters. She has won two O. Henry Prizes, an Open Fiction Award, a WILLA Literary Award, and a Smart Family Foundation prize. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.