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Patricia Marx

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Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and teaches at Columbia University, Princeton University and 92nd Street Y.^[1]

Born in Abington, Pennsylvania, she earned her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker,^[2] Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly. Marx is a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats, and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon.^[3][4][5] She is the author of the 2007 novel, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, as well as several humor books and children's books.^[6]

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Novels

• Marx, Patricia (2007). Him her him again the end of him. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780743296243.
• — (2011). Starting from happy. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Humor

• Marx, Patricia & Charlotte Stuart (1983). How to regain your virginity – and 99 other recent discoveries about sex. New York: Workman. ISBN 9780894803659.
• Marx, Patricia (1985). You can never go wrong by lying : and other solutions to the moral and social dilemmas of our time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395384657.
• Blockbuster, (with Douglas G. McGrath), (New York: Bantam Books, 1988)
• You Know You're a Workaholic When--, (New York: Workman, 1993)
• 1,003 Great Things about Getting Older, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman, and David Owen), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997)
• 1,003 Great Things about Kids, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1998)
• 1,003 Great Things about Friends, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1999)
• The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows about Dieting (and Won't Tell You!), (with Susan Sistrom), humor (New York: Dell, 1999)
• 1,003 Great Things about Teachers, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000)
• 1,003 Great Things about Moms, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• 1,003 Great Things about America, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• Birnbach, Lisa; Ann Hodgman & Patricia Marx (2004). 1,003 great things to smile about. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel.
• —; — & — (2005). 1,003 great things about being a woman. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel. ISBN 9780740750137.
• —; — & — (2006). 1,003 great things about being Jewish. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel. ISBN 9780740755293.
• You Know You're 40 When--, (with Ann Hodgman), (New York: Broadway Books, 2004)
• Marx, Patricia (2015). Let's be less stupid : an attempt to maintain my mental faculties. New York: Twelve. ISBN 9781455554959.
• Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Celadon Books, 2019)
• You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Celadon Books, 2020)

Children's books

• Dot in Larryland: The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship, (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing U.S.A. Children's Books, 2009)

• Marx, Patricia (December 8, 2008). "The price is right". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker.
• — (January 16, 2012). "A bushel and a peck". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 44. pp. 32–36. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
• — (January 30, 2012). "Me, reading". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 46. p. 35.
• — (April 16, 2012). "You're welcome". Dept. of Travel. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 9. pp. 50–55.^[7]
• — (January 14, 2013). "Outsource yourself : the online way to delegate your chores". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 43. pp. 32–35. Retrieved 2015-01-22.
• — (March 4, 2013). "Ladies". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 3. p. 35. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
• — (March 25, 2013). "Patagonia". Goings on About Town. On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 6. p. 34. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
• — (August 5, 2013). "Free and the brave". Goings on About Town. On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 23. p. 9.
• — (February 3, 2014). "A tale of a tub : why go on a cruise when you can go on a freighter?". Our Far-Flung Correspondents. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 47. pp. 26–31.
• — (October 20, 2014). "Pets allowed : why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?". Our Local Correspondents. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 32. pp. 36–41. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
• — (March 23, 2015). "About face : why is South Korea the world's plastic-surgery capital?". Letter from Seoul. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 5. pp. 50–55.^[8]
• — (May 27, 2019). "23 and him". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 14. p. 31.
• — (September 7, 2020). "Rear Window redux". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Swaps. The New Yorker. Vol. 96, no. 26. pp. 21–22.^[9]

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000175267.

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• "Harvard's Gifts to Gag Writing" New York Times - Mar 29, 1987
• "Speaking the Unspeakable (No Blushing Is Required)" New York Times - Jun 6, 1998

• Bello, Grace (August 23, 2011). "Patricia Marx on Hazing, The New Yorker, and TV Eyebrows". The Hairpin. Archived from the original on June 7, 2023. Retrieved July 14, 2012.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) (interview with Patricia Marx)
• Broyard, Bliss (2007-01-14). "Just Dump Him Already". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-01-26. (review of Her Him Again the End of Him)
• Franklin, Nancy (2007-01-15). "The Beginning of Her". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2007-02-01.