Allegra Goodman
Allegra Goodman | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) New York City,U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | Harvard University(AB) Stanford University(PhD) |
| Period | 1989-current |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Spouse | David Karger |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | |
| allegragoodman | |
Allegra Goodman(born 1967) is an American writer based inCambridge, Massachusetts.
Early life and education
[edit]Allegra Goodman was born inBrooklyn,New York,and raised inHawaii.[1]The daughter ofLennand Madeleine Goodman,[2]she was brought up as aConservative Jew.[3]Her mother, who died in 1996, was a professor ofgeneticsandwomen's studies,then assistant vice president at theUniversity of Hawaii at Manoafor many years, before moving on toVanderbilt Universityin the 1990s.[4]Her father,Lenn E. Goodman,[4]is a professor ofphilosophyat Vanderbilt.
Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.[5]
Goodman graduated fromPunahou Schoolin 1985. She then went on toHarvard University,where she earned anA.B.degree. She then went on to do graduate work atStanford University,where Goodman earned aPh.D.degree in English literature, in 1996.[2]
Writing
[edit]Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is anoncologist.Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspirations for Goodman's 2006 novelIntuition.[6]
Her short story "La Vita Nuova" was selected forThe Best American Short Stories 2011and was broadcast onPublic Radio International'sSelected Shortsin February 2012.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Goodman met her husband,David Karger,at Harvard. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel OrthodoxMinyan.Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Karger is a professor in computer science[8]atMIT.They have four children, three boys and a girl.[3]
Awards and honors
[edit]| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | — | Whiting Award | Fiction | Won | |
| 1998 | Kaaterskill Falls | National Book Award | Fiction | Shortlisted | |
| 2009 | Intuition | Wellcome Book Prize | — | Shortlisted | |
| 2018 | "F.A.Q.s" | Sunday Times Short Story Award | — | Shortlisted |
Bibliography
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Novels
[edit]- Kaaterskill Falls(The Dial Press 1998; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1999)ISBN0-385-32389-1,ISBN0-385-32390-5
- Paradise Park(The Dial Press 2001, Dial Press Trade Paperback 2002)ISBN0-385-33416-8,ISBN0-385-33418-4
- Intuition(The Dial Press 2006),ISBN0-385-33612-8
- The Other Side of the Island(New York: Razorbill, 2008)ISBN978-1-59514-196-5
- The Cookbook Collector(The Dial Press 2010)ISBN978-0-385-34085-4
- The Chalk Artist: A Novel(The Dial Press 2017)ISBN978-1-400-06987-3
- Sam: A Novel(The Dial Press 2023)ISBN978-0-593-59682-1
Short fiction
[edit]- Collections
- Total Immersion(Harper & Row 1989; paperbackDial PressTrade Paperback 1998)ISBN0-06-015998-7,ISBN0-385-33299-8
- The Family Markowitz(Farrar Straus & Giroux 1996; softcover Washington Square Press 1997)ISBN0-374-15321-3,ISBN0-671-01388-2
- Stories[a]
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A challenge you have overcome | 2021 | Goodman, Allegra (January 25, 2021)."A challenge you have overcome".The New Yorker.96(45): 54–59. |
- Goodman, Allegra (March 4, 1991)."Onionskin".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (January 5, 1992)."The Wedding of Henry Markowitz".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (November 8, 1992)."Fantasy Rose".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (August 1, 1993)."Mosquitoes".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (January 9, 1994)."Sarah".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (July 6, 1997)."The Closet".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (June 13, 1999)."The Local Production of Cinderella".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (July 3, 2005)."Long-Distance Client".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (April 26, 2010)."La Vita Nuova".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (June 30, 2014)."Apple Cake".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (September 4, 2017)."F.A.Q.s".The New Yorker.
- Goodman, Allegra (February 20, 2023)."The Last Grownup".The New Yorker.
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- Notes
- ^Short stories unless otherwise noted.
References
[edit]- ^Fried, Lewis (2007). "Allegra Goodman". InBerenbaum, Michael;Skolnik, Fred(eds.).Encyclopaedia Judaica.Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 756.ISBN978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ab"Allegra Goodman."Contemporary Authors Online.Detroit: Gale, 2011. Retrieved viaBiography in Contextdatabase, 2017-09-22.
- ^ab[1][dead link]
- ^ab"Dean Goodman remembered for leadership, spirit".Vanderbilt Register.October 7–13, 1996. p. 1. Archived fromthe originalon 2005-02-26.Retrieved2006-06-13.
- ^Donnelly, David."Novel tale of island prodigy".Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
- ^Shafner, Rhonda (April 16, 2006). "'Intuition' rings true in world of science".Archived from theoriginal,on January 30, 2010. Associated Press, viaThe Honolulu Advertiser.hawaii. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
- ^"News".Allegra Goodman's website. Archived fromthe originalon 2013-01-17.Retrieved2013-03-16.
- ^"David R. Karger".MIT CSAIL Directory.
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