CAROLINE LEAVITT is the author of six novels: Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air, and Living Other Lives. Various titles were optioned for film and condensed in magazines.
Caroline Leavitt has written essays for Parenting, Parents, Redbook, More, Salon, McCall’s, Mademoiselle, and New Woman. Her essays and short stories have also appeared in the anthologies Father, Forever Sisters, A Few Thousand Words About Love, and The Most Wonderful Books.
She won first prize in Redbook magazine’s Young Writers Contest in 1978 for her short story “Meeting Rozzy Halfway,” which grew into the novel. The recipient of a 1990 New York Foundation of the Arts Award for Fiction for Into Thin Air, she was also a judge for the 1990 Fiction Competition for the Writers’ Voice Awards in New York City.
Caroline Leavitt lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and their four-year-old son, Max.