She wrote for The Sonny and Cher Show variety show in the 1970s.

I grew up in a household where both my parents were immigrants – my mother from Russia, father from Lithuania – and they spoke more Yiddish in my house than English, so it was just a completely a part of who I was.'ĭart has written nine novels, including Beaches. In an interview (Summer 2007), when asked the question:'Has the Jewish cultural dynamic in your upbringing influenced what and how you write?', Dart replied 'Unquestionably. She is also a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in theater. She graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1962 and was inducted into their alumni hall of fame in 2009.

She also went to classes at the Pittsburgh Playhouse as a child. (Oct.Rainer Dart was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was an actress as a youth with the Curtaineers, an inter-racial theater group at the Settlement house, at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and The White Barn Theatre. The mix is hilarious, maudlin, warmhearted and surprisingly genuine in its emotions, until Dart overwhelms the narrative balance she has established by introducing soap-opera contrivances in the final chapters. Their therapist, Barbara, wrestles with her own parenting issues: her pitch-perfect adult daughter flounces in and out of her comforting orbit, while her husband wishes for one more baby just as their children are finally leaving the nest. The support group he addresses includes Judith, who had two girls by artificial insemination Mitch and Lainie, who forked over the keys to their hearts to a surrogate mother and wisecracking TV writers Ruthie and Shelly, two wonderfully drawn diehard friends, one straight and one gay, who teamed up to have a child. seduce the stork to visit our lives,'' says Rick, a pudgy, womanizing Hollywood producer pushing 50 who navigates the choppy seas of open adoption to become a single father.

``I was thinking today as I was driving here about what each of us has gone through to. The bestselling author of Beaches and I'll Be There is right on the money with this clever, timely exploration of the emotional turmoil engendered by the brave new world of contemporary baby-making.

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