Sarah Kernochan

I am a writer of fiction, film, and music. I scripted such films as the notorious "9 and ½ Weeks," "Sommersby," "Impromptu" (personal favorite), "What Lies Beneath," and "All I Wanna Do," which I also directed. Both my documentaries, "Marjoe" and "Thoth," won Academy Awards. Attending the Oscars as a nominee in the documentary category is fairly humiliating since everyone ignores you. In fact the subject of my second doc, a street musician named Thoth, was stopped 3 times by the security guards.

"Learning to Drive," a feature film I scripted, opened in August 2015. It stars Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson.

But my first ambition was always to write novels. William Morrow published "Dry Hustle" in 1977. It had a healthy success and is now reissued as an ebook.

My second novel, "Jane Was Here," is something completely different. I have long believed in reincarnation, so I really enjoyed devising a mystery-suspense story that spans 150 years, examining the karmic links between a woman's mysterious disappearance in 1853 and her reincarnated self in the present day.

Formerly an RCA recording artist, I continue to write music, posting songs on my website. My current and third album is "Decades of Demos," available for download in all online music stores.

In my spare time I maintain a blog called "At Home With a Ghost," about my encounters with ghosts and other spirits. I plan to shape it into a full-length memoir when time permits.

I live in New York with my husband James Lapine.

To find out more or to contact me, visit http://sarahkernochan.com

To sample my music, go to http://sarahkernochan.com/lyrics/index.html

Watch my short documentary Thoth at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjnd__isN0Y