Katharine Weber

Katharine Weber (born November 12, 1955) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Yale University, Goucher College, the Paris Writers Workshop and elsewhere. She is currently serving as the Visiting Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing at Kenyon College, a five-year position. 2Life and work Weber was born in New York City, the daughter of Andrea (nee Warburg) and Sidney Kaufman. Her grandfather was banker James Warburg. She grew up in the Forest Hills Gardens section of Queens, New York. She attended The Kew-Forest School and Forest Hills High School before attending the Freshman Year Program at The New School for Social Research (now Eugene Lang College at New School University) in 1972. Weber attended Yale as a part-time undergraduate from 1982 to 1984. In 1976, she married Nicholas Fox Weber (cultural historian and Executive Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation) and moved to Connecticut. Two daughters, Lucy and Charlotte, were born in 1981 and 198