Tiffanie DeBartolo

Tiffanie DeBartolo (born November 27, 1970) is an American novelist, filmmaker, co-founder of the independent record label Bright Antenna, and co-founder of The ShineMaker Foundation. Tiffanie has written three novels: God-Shaped Hole, How To Kill a Rock Star, and the upcoming SORROW, scheduled for release in October 2020. She wrote and directed the film Dream for an Insomniac, featuring Ione Skye and Jennifer Aniston, released in 1996. She also penned the text to the graphic novel GRACE: The Jeff Buckley Story, which was released in April 2019.

Tiffanie DeBartolo
BornTiffanie DeBartolo
(1970-11-27) November 27, 1970
Youngstown, Ohio, US
OccupationNovelist
Filmmaker
Record Label Co-founder
LanguageEnglish
EducationVilla Maria High School
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Period21st Century
GenreFiction
SubjectMusic
Years active2002–present
SpouseScott Schumaker
RelativesEdward J. DeBartolo, Jr. (father)
Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. (grandfather)
Denise DeBartolo York (aunt)
John York (uncle)
Jed York (cousin)

Biography

DeBartolo is the daughter of former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr.. She attended the all-girls Villa Maria High School and dropped out her senior year when they wouldn't let her graduate early. She later obtained her GED and graduated from UC Berkeley with a philosophy degree, then moved to Los Angeles. She has previously lived in New York City and Boulder, Colorado, and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her novel writing career began after her screenwriting/directorial debut, with God-Shaped Hole (2002) and How to Kill a Rock Star (2005), both from Sourcebooks Landmark. Sidney Sheldon has praised her sophomore novel, saying it has "Wonderful characters wrapped up in a story that moves like an express train". God-Shaped Hole was published in the UK as The Shape of My Heart.[1] She also wrote the text for Grace, a graphic novel about American musician Jeff Buckley (2019).[2]

Bright Antenna

She is one of the owners of the Indie music record label Bright Antenna,[3] which has released music by Sports Team, Middle Class Rut, PREP, The Wombats, Roman Lewis, Wilderado, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Flagship, In The Valley Below, Beware of Darkness, OURS, and Cheerleader.

Publications
  • Debartolo, Tiffanie. Sorrow. Woodhall Press LLP, 2020.
  • Debartolo, Tiffanie. How to Kill a Rockstar. Sourcebooks Landmark, 2005.

References
  1. Shape of My Heart at Amazon.co.uk
  2. Tiffanie, DeBartolo. "Grace: Based on the Jeff Buckley Story". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  3. "Bright Antenna: About Us". June 15, 2010. Archived from the original on March 19, 2011. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
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