Alisa Kwitney is an American author

American literature

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Kwitney was born in New York City

New York City

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. She graduated from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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 with a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in English

English studies

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 and from Columbia University

Columbia University

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's Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

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 Fiction Writing Program. Kwitney was also an editor for Vertigo, the mature/dark fantasy branch of DC Comics

DC Comics

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. Harper-Collins published her first novel, Till The Fat Lady Sings, in 1991. This was also her master's thesis

Thesis

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Kwitney lives on the Upper West Side

Upper West Side

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 of Manhattan

Manhattan

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. She is the daughter of science fiction author Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...

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Novels

• Till The Fat Lady Sings (1991) ISBN 0-06-019021-3
• The Dominant Blonde published by Avon Books in June, 2002 ISBN 0-06-008329-8
• Does She or Doesn't She? published by Avon Books in June, 2003 ISBN 0-06-051237-7
• On the Couch published (paperback) by HarperCollins, July 1, 2004 ISBN 0-06-053079-0
• Sex as a Second Language: A Novel published by Atria Books, April 25, 2006 978-0-74326890-5

Graphic novels

• Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
  Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
  Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold is a 1996 comic book mini-series published by Vertigo, written by Alisa Kwitney and with art by Kent Williams, Michael Zulli, Scott Hampton and Rebecca Guay...
  
  (March 2000) ISBN 1-56389-505-6
• Vertigo Visions: The Phantom Stranger (October 2003) ISBN 0-8230-5603-1
• Sandman: King of Dreams (November 2003) ISBN 0-8118-3592-8
• Token (November 2008) ISBN 1-4012-1538-6

External links

• Alisa's website