Jane Bernstein

Jane Bernstein (born June 10, 1949) is an American writer and novelist.

Her short works have been widely published in journals and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine,[1][2] Glamour, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, and Massachusetts Review.

Her co-written screenplay for Seven Minutes in Heaven was released by Warner Brothers in 1986.

Bernstein was twice the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, in 1982–1983 and in 2000–2001.

In the summer of 1977, while helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the film Over the Edge, a teen rebellion film released in 1979, she met Matt Dillon at the Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont, New York, thus launching his acting career.