Lynne Kaufman is the author of four novels and two dozen plays. Her latest novel, “Divine Madness” is written as a diary by critic Elizabeth Hardwick about her tumultuous relationship with poet Robert Lowell who betrayed her in love and literature.
Her latest play, “Who killed Sylvia Plath”, after a three month run at The Marsh Theatres in San Francisco and Berkeley, won The Marshstream International Solo Festival.
Her plays have been produced at such theatres as Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, The Magic Theatre in San Francisco, Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, and The Abingdon Theatre in New York City. Her many awards include the NEA/Kennedy Center Fund for new American Plays, Theatreworks Best New Play in California and Critics Circle Best New Play in San Francisco.
Many of her works feature real historical characters at a crisis point in their lives. Rather than biography, they serve as a vessel for approaching the deep questions in her own life.
She lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at The Fromm Institute at USF and OLLI at SFState University.