Tiffanie DeBartolo

Tiffanie DeBartolo (born November 27, 1970) is an American novelist, filmmaker, co-founder of the independent record label Bright Antenna, and co-founder of The ShineMaker Foundation. Tiffanie has written three novels: God-Shaped Hole, How To Kill a Rock Star, and the upcoming SORROW, scheduled for release in October 2020. She wrote and directed the film Dream for an Insomniac, featuring Jennifer Aniston, released in 1996. She also penned the text to the graphic novel GRACE: The Jeff Buckley Story, which was released in April 2019.

Biography
DeBartolo is the daughter of former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr.. She attended the all-girls Villa Maria High School and dropped out her senior year when they wouldn't let her graduate early. She later obtained her GED and graduated from UC Berkeley with a philosophy degree, then moved to Los Angeles. She has previously lived in New York City and Boulder, Colorado, and now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her novel writing career began after her screenwriting/directorial debut, with God-Shaped Hole (2002) and How to Kill a Rock Star (2005), both from Sourcebooks Landmark. Sidney Sheldon has praised her sophomore novel, saying it has "Wonderful characters wrapped up in a story that moves like an express train". God-Shaped Hole was published in the UK as The Shape of My Heart. She also wrote the text for Grace, a graphic novel about American musician Jeff Buckley (2019).

Bright Antenna
She is one of the owners of the Indie music record label Bright Antenna, which has released music by Sports Team, Middle Class Rut, PREP, The Wombats, Roman Lewis, Wilderado, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Flagship, In The Valley Below, Beware of Darkness, and Cheerleader.

References

External links
God-Shaped Hole at Sourcebooks website

2008 interview with DeBartolo at Once Upon a City website
Bright Antenna website.
Tiffanie DeBartolo Goodreads page.
How to Kill a Rock Star Goodreads page.
God Shaped Hole Goodreads page

Category:American women screenwriters
Category:Screenwriters from California
Category:American women novelists
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Writers from Youngstown, Ohio
Category:1970 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Mill Valley, California
Category:Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:Record producers from California
Category:American filmmakers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:DeBartolo family
Category:Novelists from California
Category:Novelists from Ohio
Category:Screenwriters from Ohio
Category:American women record producers