best thing that I will ever do"; Sommersby (1993); wrote and directed The Hairy Bird (1998); co-wrote the story for What Lies Beneath (2000); and directed Thoth (2002) and wrote Learning to Drive (2014). Her second documentary, Thoth, also won an Academy Award in 2002, this time for Best Documentary Short Subject. She has taught screenwriting at Emerson College. In August 2014, her feature script Learning to Drive, based on a New Yorker story by Katha Pollitt, went before cameras. The film, starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, was released in the US on August 21, 2015. Novels In 1977, Kernochan's novel Dry Hustle ( in hard cover, in paperback) was published. It was reprinted as an ebook in 2011. In June 2011, Kernochan released her first novel in over 35 years entitled Jane Was Here (). A mysterious young woman, calling herself Jane, arrives in the small rundown community of Graynier, Massachusetts. She can point out the house where she grew up, though she has never been to Graynier in her life. Jane carries with her the fragmentary memory of her former life, and refuses to adjust to her new identity. Thus begins Jane's mission, to retrieve the puzzle pieces of a former life, groping her way through the past and the present simultaneously. Music career Sarah is also a singer, lyricist, and composer. During the next two years after the release of Marjoe, she released two albums on RCA Records as a singer-songwriter, House of Pain and Beat Around the Bush. Kernochan released her third album as a singer-songwriter, "Decades of Demos," in 2013. She also wrote the musical Sleeparound Town, which was a show about puberty and featured five adolescents. Personal life Kernochan is married to American stage director James Lapine, a Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner. The couple's daughter is food and health writer Phoebe Lapine. References External links 1947 births Film directors from New York City Writers from New York City Choate Rosemary Hall alumni Living people Singers from New York City Sarah Lawrence College alumni American women screenwriters Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners American documentary filmmakers Screenwriters from New York (state) American women documentary filmmakers Singer-songwriters from New York (state) 21st-century American women