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Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith obituary Katherine Wyeth
My mother, Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith, who has died aged 67 by accidental drowning in New Zealand, was a screenwriter, theatre practitioner and filmmaker, as well as a published poet and novelist. She was also an artistic director of the King’s Head theatre in London, which was founded by her husband, Dan Crawford.
She was born in New York to Howard Weiss, a lawyer, and Bernice Smith, an artist. After her parents divorced, her mother married a jazz musician, Joseph diLalla, heralding a peripatetic lifestyle that saw the family move continually across the US.
Stephanie attended high school at Windsor Mountain in Massachusetts and then went to the California College of Art. After returning to New York, she reunited with her high school friend Matthew Kastin, whom she married in 1980. The couple moved to the Berkshires in Massachusetts, where I was born in 1982.
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Snow White and Rose Red by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Frozen was widely heralded for its focus on a sister relationship instead of a romantic one the first Disney fairy tale retelling that was about a bond between sisters. But the movie was (extremely loosely) based on The Snow Queen a fairy tale that doesn’t even have a sister in it.
My upcoming middle grade book,
Thornwood, is told from the point of view of Sleeping Beauty’s little sister, and is going to kick off a series of retellings, called Sisters Ever After, about “the sisters the fairy tales left out.” I had a lot of fun weaving the complexities of a sister relationship into a story that was originally about an only child. But at some point I started to wonder: why does a fairy tale about sisters seem like such a novel concept? After all, most fairy tales didn’t originate at a time when only children were the norm. Yet a search through popular fairy tales reveals a smattering of sister-brother combinations, and a
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