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Connie May Fowler

Connie May Fowler

Connie May Fowler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. Her most recent work, The Problem with Murmur Lee, was published by Doubleday in January 2005 and by Broadway Books on March 7, 2006. In 2002 she published When Katie Wakes, a memoir that explores her descent into and escape from an abusive relationship.

She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels including Remembering Blue, which was awarded the Chautauqua South Literary Award, and Before Women Had Wings, recipient of the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award from the League of American Pen Women. Three of her novels have been Dublin International Literary Award nominees. Fowler adapted Before Women Had Wings for Oprah Winfrey. The result was an Emmy-winning film starring Winfrey and Ellen Barkin.

Fowler's work has been translated into 15 languages and is published worldwide. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, The London Times, The International Herald Tribune, Oxford American, and elsewhere. In 2003 Fowler performed in The Vagina Monologues alongside Jane Fonda and Rosie Perez in a production that raised over $100,000 for two charitable agencies that aid women and children in need.

Her seventh book, a novel, is due out from Doubleday in 2008.