Eliot, and their miniature dachsunds Milton and Dante. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband Jeff, their cats Shakespeare and T.S. The recipient of a host of awards for journalism and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, Marya has lectured at universities around the country, taught writing and literature, and published in academic and literary journals since 1992. It is already being called 'the most visceral, important book on mental illness to be published in years.' It will be published in April of 2008.

Marya's new memoir Madness: A Life (Houghton Mifflin) is an intense, beautifully written book about the difficulties, and promise, of living with mental illness. It is a candid, blunt view of life for a. Her second book, the acclaimed novel The Center of Winter (HarperCollins, 2005) has been called 'masterful,' 'gorgeous writing,' 'a stunning acheivement of storytelling,' 'delicious,' and 'compulsive reading.' Told in three voices, by six-year-old Kate, her mentally ill brother Esau, and their mother Claire, The Center of Winter is the story of a family recovering from a father's suicide in the spare, wintry Minnesota north, a story of struggle, transformation, and hope. Madness is the memoir of a woman suffering from bipolar disorder and the journey she took to get to where she is today. What started as a crazy idea suggested by a writer friend became the classic book that has been published in fourteen languages, is taught in universities and writing programs all over the world, and has, according to the thousands of letters Marya has received over the years, changed lives. Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.), in 1998, when she was twenty-three.

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