Beth Gutcheon published her first novel, The New Girls, in 1979. Her second novel, Still Missing, was translated into fourteen languages and made into a major Twentieth Century Fox film called Without a Trace, starring Judd Hirsch and Kate Nelligan, for which Gutcheon wrote the screenplay. Gutcheon lives in New York City with her husband and dog. When not reading or writing, she spends her time working for PEN, the international writer’s organization that promotes literacy and defends freedom of expression in the United States and around the world. |