Patricia Marx

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

Books

• Starting from Happy (illustrated by the author), humorous novel (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
• Dot in Larryland: The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship, (illustrated by Roz Chast), children's book/humor (New York: Bloombury U.S.A. Children's Books, 2009)
• Him Her Him Again the End of Him, novel (New York: Scribner, 2007)
• 1,003 Great Things about Being Jewish, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2006)
• 1,003 Great Things about Being a Woman, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2005)
• 1,003 Great Things To Smile about, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2004)
• You Know You're 40 When--, (with Ann Hodgman), humor (New York: Broadway Books, 2004)
• 1,003 Great Things about Moms, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• 1,003 Great Things about America, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• 1,003 Great Things about Teachers, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000)
• 1,003 Great Things about Friends, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (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 Kids, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1998)
• 1,003 Great Things about Getting Older, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman, and David Owen), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997)
• You Know You're a Workaholic When--, humor (New York: Workman, 1993)
• Blockbuster, (with Douglas G. McGrath), humor (New York: Bantam Books, 1988)
• You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time, humor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985)
• How to Regain Your Virginity ... and 99 Other Recent Discoveries about Sex, (with Charlotte Stuart), humor (New York: Workman, 1983)

Articles

• Marx, Patricia (8 December 2008). "On and Off the Avenue: The Price is Right". The New Yorker 84 (40): 54–58. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/08/081208fa_fact_marx. Retrieved 22 May 2009. 

References

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

• Dallas Morning News Mar 22, 1999
• "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

External links

• Broyard, Bliss (2007-01-14). "Just Dump Him Already". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E0D61730F937A25752C0A9619C8B63. 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. http://web.archive.org/web/20070126012836/http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/070115on_onlineonly01. Retrieved 2007-02-01.