Pay It Forward (Hyde)

Author Bio 
• Birth—1955
• Where—N/A
• Education—N/A
• Currently—lives in Cambria, California


Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of the best selling novel Pay It Forward and numerous short stories, including the collection Earthquake Weather. She lives in Cambria, California. (From the publisher.)

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Catherine Ryan Hyde s an American novelist and short story writer, whose novels have enjoyed bestseller status in both the US and UK, and whose short stories have won many awards and honors.

Hyde is the author of the novel Funerals for Horses (1997), a collection of short fiction, Earthquake Weather (1998), the novels Pay it Forward (1999), Electric God (2000), and Walter’s Purple Heart (2002). More recent novels include Becoming Chloe (2006), Love in the Present Tense (2006), The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance (2007), Chasing Windmills (2008) and The Day I Killed James 2008).

The 1999 novel, Pay It Forward, has been translated into 20 languages for publication in more than 30 countries, and chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults 2001 by the American Library Association. Its 2000 film adaptation starred Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment.

Her 2006 novel, Love in the Present Tense, enjoyed bestseller status in the UK, where it broke the top ten, spent five weeks on the list, was reviewed on a major TV book club, and shortlisted for a Best Read of the Year award at the British Book Awards.

More than 45 of her short stories have been published in The Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and many other journals. Her story "Bloodlines" was reprinted in the bestselling anthology Dog is my Co-Pilot (2003).

Two of her stories have been honored in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. She received second place in the 1997 Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Nearly a dozen of her stories have been nominated for Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Award and The Pushcart Prize. Three have been cited in Best American Short Stories anthologies.

She has served on the 1998 fiction fellowship panel of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and on the editorial staff of the Santa Barbara Review and Central Coast Magazine. She teaches workshops at the Santa Barbara, La Jolla and Central Coast Writers Conferences.

She is founder and president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, and met with Americorps members at the White House. (From Wikipedia.)