Hyatt Bass

Her father, Sid Bass, is an oil heir and business executive.[2] Her mother, Anne Hendricks Bass, is a philanthropist and art collector.[2] Her parents divorced in 1986.[2] Two polaroid pictures of her taken in 1980, when she was a child, by Andy Warhol were gifted by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to the Princeton University Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2008.[3][4]

She graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1991 after completing an 85-page-long senior thesis titled "Gender Versus Genre: Representations of Women in Five Films [Notorious, Desperately Seeking Susan, Born in Flames, Illusions and Streetwise]."[5][6]

In 2000, she was the screenwriter and director of 75 Degrees in July.[7]

She published a novel entitled The Embers in 2009.[8] She took seven years to write it.[9] The novel is about Laura and Joel Ascher, two Manhattanites whose marriage ends in divorce after their son Thomas dies.[2] Fifteen years later, they reunite for their daughter Emily's wedding.[2] In a review for The Book Reporter, Bass was described as 'a gifted writer whose storytelling acumen and evocative prose speak to her real potential as a novelist.'[10]

She has made charitable contributions to the National Book Foundation, the Sadie Nash Leadership Project and The Marshall Project.[11][12][13] She has also funded the documentary Women, War & Peace on PBS.[14] In 2010, she co-chaired the 23 Annual Stepping Out and Stepping Up Gala organized by the New York Women's Foundation.[15]

In 2007, Vanity Fair reported that "as of some years ago", Hyatt and her sister Samantha had trust funds of US$280 million each.[1]

She is married to Josh Klausner, and she has two sons.[8] They live in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, in New York City.[16]

• Hyatt Bass. The Embers. New York City: Henry Holt and Co.. 2009. 304 pages.

• Official website