Sheila Caroline Ballantyne (née Weibert; July 26, 1937 – May 2, 2007) was an American novelist and short story writer.
[1] After college, Ballantyne worked in the medical records department of Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco.
[1] In 1982, Ballantyne published the semi-autobiographical Imaginary Crimes, which documents the upbringing of two young girls in 1960s Portland, Oregon.
[1] The novel helped earn Ballantyne a Guggenheim Fellowship the following year,[2] and was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1994, starring Harvey Keitel, Fairuza Balk, Kelly Lynch, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Elisabeth Moss.
[1] In 1988, she published Life on Earth, a collection of short stories which present death as a nameless personified villain.