Meg Wolitzer
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| Born | May 28, 1959 New York City,U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Smith College Brown University |
| Period | 1982–present |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Notable works | The Ten-Year Nap,The Uncoupling,The Interestings |
| Spouse | Richard Panek |
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Meg Wolitzer(born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known forThe Wife,The Ten-Year Nap,The Uncoupling,The Interestings,andThe Female Persuasion.She works as an instructor in theMFAprogram atStony Brook Southampton.
Life and career
[edit]Wolitzer was born inBrooklynand raised inSyosset, New York,the daughter of novelistHilma Wolitzer(née Liebman) and psychologist Morton Wolitzer.[1][2]She was raised Jewish.[3]Wolitzer studied creative writing atSmith Collegeand graduated fromBrown Universityin 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]Her following books includeHidden Pictures(1986),This Is Your Life(1988),Surrender, Dorothy(1998),The Wife(2003),The Position(2005),The Ten-Year Nap(2008),The Uncoupling(2011), andThe Interestings(2013). Her short story "Tea at the House" was featured in 1998'sBest American Short Storiescollection. Her novel for younger readers,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 theUniversity of Iowa's Writers' Workshop,Skidmore College,and, most recently, was a guest artist atPrinceton University.Over the past decade she has also taught at bothStony Brook Southampton's MFA in Creative Writing program and the Southampton Writers Conference and the Florence Writers Workshop.[6]Three films have been based on her work:This Is My Life,scripted and directed byNora Ephron;the 2006 made-for-television movieSurrender, Dorothy;and the 2017 dramaThe Wife,starringGlenn CloseandJonathan Pryce.
The Uncouplingwas the subject of the first coast-to-coast virtual book club discussion, viaSkype.[7]
As of 2018, Wolitzer resides in theUpper West SideofManhattan,with her husband, science writerRichard Panek.[1]
Works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Sleepwalking(1982)ISBN9781594633133,OCLC862097178
- Hidden Pictures(1986)
- This Is Your Life(1988)
- Friends for Life1994ISBN9780821750377,OCLC32939325
- Surrender, Dorothy(1998)
- The Wife(2003)ISBN9780099478195,OCLC908803171
- The Position(2005)
- The Ten-Year Nap(2008)ISBN9781594483547,OCLC1003299133
- The Uncoupling(2011)ISBN9781594485657,OCLC1021096351
- The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman(2011)
- The Interestings(2013)[8]ISBN9780099584094,OCLC1001585374
- Belzhar(2014)ISBN9780142426296,OCLC904081649
- The Female Persuasion(2018)ISBN9781594488405,OCLC993689357[1][9][10]
- To Night Owl from Dogfish(2019)ISBN9781984815057
Children’s Books
- Millions of Maxes (2022)
References
[edit]- ^abcLyall, Sarah (2018-03-23)."Why Now May (Finally) Be Meg Wolitzer's Moment".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2018-03-26.
- ^"Wolitzer, Hilma 1930-".www.encyclopedia.com.Retrieved29 December2021.
- ^"Q&A: Meg Wolitzer on Sex, Suburbs — and the Workmen's Circle".The Jewish Daily Forward.April 28, 2011. Archived fromthe originalon 7 June 2012.
- ^"Writing About Women Who Are Soccer Moms Without Soccer".New York Times.March 25, 2008.RetrievedSeptember 4,2011.
- ^Meg Wolitzer (March 30, 2012)."The Second Shelf".The New York Times.RetrievedApril 29,2013.
- ^"Faculty & Staff | Southampton Arts".
- ^"New chapter begins for book clubs as author takes discussion online".Edmonton Journal.September 4, 2011.RetrievedSeptember 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.Retrieved2018-03-26.
- ^"Meg Wolitzer's New Novel is Right for the #MeToo Moment".Publishers Weekly.Retrieved2018-03-26.
External links
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Quotations related toMeg Wolitzerat Wikiquote- Meg WolitzeratIMDb
- 1959 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- People from Syosset, New York
- Brown University alumni
- Smith College alumni
- University of Houston faculty
- Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Novelists from Texas
- Novelists from Iowa
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Jewish American novelists
- American women academics
- 21st-century American Jews