2014, and Sea Lovers: Selected Stories appeared in 2016. Her 1990 novel, Mary Reilly, a retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the point of view of a servant in the doctor's house, won the Kafka Prize in 1990 and has been translated into 16 languages. It was released as a film in 1996 by Columbia TriStar Pictures, directed by Stephen Frears and starred John Malkovich as Dr. Jekyll and Julia Roberts as Mary. The short film Surface Calm (2001), directed by Michael Miley, is based on her short story of the same title from her first book, Love (1977). With her niece, poet Lisa Martin, she has written a trilogy of children's books about cats named Anton and Cecil. Personal life She was married to artist Robert M. Martin from 1970 until their divorce in 1984. They had one daughter, Adrienne, born in 1975. Martin resides in Dutchess County, New York. She lived with her partner, the translator John Cullen, and her cat named Jackson Gray. Cullen died in April 2021. She enjoys gardening. Martin has continued to teach at the college level even though her writing career has been successful, sometimes taking breaks from the classroom in order to complete a work. She says she needs the social activity of working with young authors to balance the solitary activity that is writing. She initially writes in longhand, later transferring the text to a computer. Works Novels Set in Motion (1978) Alexandra (1979) A Recent Martyr (1987) Mary Reilly (1990) The Great Divorce (1994) Italian Fever (1999) Property (2003) Trespass (2007) The Confessions of Edward Day (2009) The Ghost of the Mary Celeste (2014) Collections Love: Short Stories (1977) The Consolation of Nature, and Other Stories (1988) The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories (2006) Sea Lovers (2015) Non-fiction Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis (2001) Children's Anton and Cecil: Cats at Sea (2013) Anton and Cecil: Cats on Track (2015) Anton and Cecil: Cats Aloft (2016) Awards and honors Louisiana Endowment for the Arts grant (1983) Kafka Prize (1990) National Education Association award (1990) World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1991): Mary Reilly Nebula Best Novel nominee (1991): Mary Reilly Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2003): Property Louisiana Writer Award (2010) Guggenheim Fellowship (2011) References External links Audio recording of Valerie Martin reading from Property at the 2009 Key West