Marilyn Yalom
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Marilyn Yalom (born 1932) is a feminist author and historian. She is a senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.[1][2] She served as the institute's director from 1984 to 1985.[3]
She is married to the psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom.[4]
Her writing Birth of the Chess Queen was inspired by, on a visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, seeing a small carved ivory image of a Madonna and Child, described as a chess piece; she concluded that it was intended as a devotional object but had been made by an ivory carver accustomed to making chess pieces.
Awards and honors
- 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award, shortlisted for How the French Invented Love[5]
Works
- A History of the Wife
- A History of the Breast
- Blood Sisters
- The French Revolution in Women's History
- Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness
- Birth of the Chess Queen
- How the French Invented Love
References
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marilyn-yalom/
- ↑ http://www.harpercollins.com/author/index.aspx?authorID=10783
- ↑ "Marilyn Yalom. Senior Scholar. Clayman Institute Director, 1984-1985".
- ↑ Washington Weaver The Alliterating Philosopher: Philosophy Can Be Phun 2010 - Page 52 "Marilyn Yalom is married to the twentieth century's most influential American psychotherapist whose name is Dr. Irvin Yalom."
- ↑ "The American Library in Paris Book Award Shortlist". The American Library in Paris Book Award. The American Library in Paris. September 2013.
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