Title
Associate Professor of the Practice of English and Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program
English
Expertise
Fiction Writer, Novelist
Profile
PUBLICATION:
Novels
The Object of My Affection (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--1988)
The Easy Way Out (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--1992)
The Man of the House (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--1996)
True Enough (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--2001)
Alternatives to Sex (Simon and Schuster/Washington Sq Press--2006)
Film adaptations of The Object of My Affection (20th Century Fox, 1998, directed by Nicholas Hytner/screenplay by Wendy Wasserstein--Jennifer Anniston, Paul Rudd, Alsion Janey.)
True Enough (In French--La Verite Ou Presque--Films A4, 2007, directed by Sam Karman, screenplay by Sam Karman--Karin Viard, Andre Dussolier, George Cluzet.)
Fiction, articles, personal essays, and reviews in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, Harpers, Vanity Fair and other publications.
Degrees
Columbia University, M.F.A.
University of Vermont, B.A.
Contact
| Email: | smccau@brandeis.edu |
| Phone: | 781-736-8213 |
| Office: | Rabb Graduate Center, 266b |
Courses Taught
| ENG | 30a | Twentieth-Century American Comic Novel |
| ENG | 109b | Directed Writing: Short Fiction |
| ENG | 119a | Directed Writing: Fiction |
Scholarship
