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Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife The Ten-Year Nap , The Uncoupling, The Interestings , and The Female Persuasion. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton .
Life and career [ edit ]
Wolitzer was born in Brooklyn and raised in Syosset, New York , the daughter of novelist Hilma Wolitzer (née Liebman) and psychologist Morton Wolitzer.[1] [2] [3] Smith College and graduated from Brown University in 1981. She wrote her first novel, Sleepwalking , a story of three college girls obsessed with poetry and death, while still an undergraduate; it was published in 1982.[4] Hidden Pictures (1986), This Is Your Life (1988), Surrender, Dorothy (1998), The Wife (2003), The Position (2005), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Uncoupling (2011), and The Interestings (2013). Her short story "Tea at the House" was featured in 1998's Best American Short Stories The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman , was published in 2011.
She also co-authored, with Jesse Green, a book of cryptic crosswords, Nutcrackers: Devilishly Addictive Mind Twisters for the Insatiably Verbivorous (1991), and has written about the relative difficulty women writers face in gaining critical acclaim.[5]
She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa 's Writers' Workshop, Skidmore College , and, most recently, was a guest artist at Princeton University . Over the past decade she has also taught at both Stony Brook Southampton 's MFA in Creative Writing program and the Southampton Writers Conference and the Florence Writers Workshop.[6] This Is My Life Nora Ephron ; the 2006 made-for-television movie Surrender, Dorothy The Wife Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce .
The Uncoupling was the subject of the first coast-to-coast virtual book club discussion, via Skype .[7]
As of 2018, Wolitzer resides in the Upper West Side of Manhattan , with her husband, science writer Richard Panek .[1]
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References [ edit ]
^ "Wolitzer, Hilma 1930-" . www.encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 29 December 2021 .
^ "Q&A: Meg Wolitzer on Sex, Suburbs — and the Workmen's Circle" . The Jewish Daily Forward . April 28, 2011. Archived from the original on 7 June 2012.
^ "Writing About Women Who Are Soccer Moms Without Soccer" . New York Times . March 25, 2008. Retrieved September 4, 2011 .
^ Meg Wolitzer (March 30, 2012). "The Second Shelf" . The New York Times . Retrieved April 29, 2013 .
^ "Faculty & Staff | Southampton Arts" .
^ "New chapter begins for book clubs as author takes discussion online" . Edmonton Journal . September 4, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2011 .
^ Doll, Jen (May 9, 2013). "The Author Eveyrone's Interested In: Meg Wolitzer and 'The Interestings' . The Atlantic .
^ Gentry, Amy. "Review: 'The Female Persuasion' by Meg Wolitzer" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 2018-03-26 .
^ "Meg Wolitzer's New Novel is Right for the #MeToo Moment" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2018-03-26 .
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