Cammie McGovern is the author of “Eye Contact” and “The Art of
Seeing”. Cammie McGovern is the younger sister of the actress Elizabeth
McGovern, a fact that she employed to great effect in her debut novel “The Art
of Seeing”. She is also the mother of an autistic boy, like the hero of “Eye
Contact”. This led Cammie McGovern to pioneering many new teaching techniques
with her son, which have been so successful, that his development has astounded
doctors. Cammie McGovern has since founded a play centre in her neighbourhood
for special needs kids. Cammie McGovern read English at Kenyon College (where
she was the subject of Allison Joseph’s poem “Cammie Cuts my Hair”, since she
was the only one on campus who could successfully cut African-American hair,
published in the collection “Imitation of
Life”), and then did an MFA degree at the University of Michigan. Cammie
was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. She has won the Nelson Algren Award for Short
Fiction, and has featured in Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Series. She has
read her stories on the BBC Radio World Short Stories Series, and has also been
published in “Nimrod”, “Redbook”, “Seventeen”, “Glimmer Train,” “TriQuarterly”,
and “The Sonora Review”. Julia Roberts has optioned the film rights for “Eye
Contact”. Cammie McGovern lives with her family in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Read
an extract from "The Art of Seeing"
My
son’s weakest subject is life – Cammie McGovern talks to “The Daily
Telegraph” about “The Art of Seeing”
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