birth_place notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation
washington , d.c. , united states '' '' the man from saigon '' '' dying young 1963 fiction , literary fiction marti leimbach
 marti leimbach novelist
marti leimbach

marti leimbach -lrb- born july 16 , 1963 -rrb- is an american fiction writer .
her first novel , `` dying young '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- , was an international bestseller and the basis of the film , `` dying young '' , starring julia roberts , campbell scott and vincent d'onofrio .
marti leimbach 's other novels include `` sun dial street '' -lrb- 1992 -rrb- and `` love and houses '' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , after which she took time away from writing when her youngest child was diagnosed with autism .
later she wrote `` daniel is n't talking '' -lrb- 2006 -rrb- , which by her own admission contains some autobiographical information derived from her real-life experience as a mother of an autistic child .
`` daniel is n't talking '' was optioned by fox 2000 with a film planned for 2010 .
born in washington , d.c. in 1963 to mary leimbach , a news reporter , and leonard leimbach , who died when the author was four years old .
leimbach 's first novel , which centers around the death of a young man , was written while her own mother was dying .
in an interview with marian christy of `` the boston globe '' , she expressed regret that neither of her parents had lived to see her first publication .
marti leimbach attended winston churchill high school , then harvard university , where she received a ba in english and american literature and language .
she was a regent 's fellow at the university of california , irvine , where she wrote `` dying young '' .
her most recent novel , `` the man from saigon '' , is published in the united kingdom by fourth estate/harper collins in 2009 and in the united states by nan a. talese/random house in 2010 .
in 2009 , leimbach donated the short story `` boys in cars '' to oxfam 's ` ox-tales ' project , four collections of uk stories written by 38 authors .
her story was published in the ` earth ' collection .
