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.