Thisbe Nissen

Biography

Thisbe Nissen is the author of a novel, The Good People of New York (Knopf, 2001), and a collection of stories, Out of the Girls’ Room and into the Night (Iowa, 1999 / Anchor, 2000), winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. She is also the coauthor of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes) (HarperResource, 2002). Her new novel, Osprey Island, will be released by Knopf in June.

See Work

FICTION / Summer 2004

You Were My Favorite Scarecrow

By Thisbe Nissen

Calista Wertheim was, in her time—as most people are, in their times, I suppose—lovely. She had a propensity toward all things batik and slashed her way through life with that mane of frizzled yellow whipping behind her. Garry loved her...