Tiffanie DeBartolo | |
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| Born | Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970-11-27)November 27, 1970 (age 54) Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist filmmaker record label co-founder |
| Language | English |
| Education | Villa Maria High School University of California, Berkeley (BA) |
| Period | 21st century |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Subject | Music |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Spouse | Scott Schumaker |
| Relatives | Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr. (father) Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. (grandfather) Denise DeBartolo York (aunt) John York (uncle) Jed York (cousin) |
Tiffanie DeBartolo (born November 27, 1970) is an American novelist, filmmaker, co-founder of theindependent record labelBright Antenna, and co-founder of The ShineMaker Foundation. She has written three novels:God-Shaped Hole,How To Kill a Rock Star, andSorrow. She wrote and directed the 1996 filmDream for an Insomniac starringIone Skye andJennifer Aniston. She also penned the text to the graphic novelGRACE: The Jeff Buckley Story, which was released in April 2019.
DeBartolo is the daughter of formerSan Francisco 49ers ownerEdward J. DeBartolo, Jr. She attended the all-girls Villa Maria High School and dropped out her senior year when she was not allowed to graduate early. She later obtained herGED and graduated fromUC Berkeley with a philosophy degree, then moved to Los Angeles. She has previously lived in New York City andBoulder, Colorado, and now resides in theSan Francisco Bay Area. Her novel writing career began after her screenwriting/directorial debut, withGod-Shaped Hole (2002) andHow to Kill a Rock Star (2005), both fromSourcebooks Landmark.Sidney Sheldon has praised her sophomore novel, saying it has "Wonderful characters wrapped up in a story that moves like an express train".[citation needed]God-Shaped Hole was published in the UK asThe Shape of My Heart.[1] In 2020 she releasedSorrow published by Woodhall Press.Sorrow was inspired by the song of the same name byThe National from their 2010 albumHigh Violet. She also wrote the text forGrace: Based on the Jeff Buckley Story, agraphic novel about American musicianJeff Buckley (2019).[2]
She is one of the owners of theIndie music record labelBright Antenna,[3] which has released music bySports Team,Middle Class Rut, PREP,The Wombats, Fana Hues, Roman Lewis,Wilderado,Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,Flagship,In The Valley Below,Beware of Darkness,Jimmy Gnecco of OURS, andCheerleader.
She is the co-founder of the ShineMaker Foundation[4] which she started along with her husband Scott Schumaker.
