Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman (born May 21, 1969) is an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with the New York Times for a total of eight years. For three years she was co-chief of the South Asia bureau. Before that she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11.^[1]

Her first novel, The Submission, was published in 2011. According to a review of the book in The Guardian, the novel tackles the fallout from 9/11 attacks.^[2] The novel was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2011. It lost out narrowly to Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies.^[3]

Waldman was also a national correspondent with The Atlantic,^[1] has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and won a Berlin Prize in 2010 from the American Academy in Berlin.^[4]

"The Submission"

Amy Waldman's first novel, The Submission, was published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and received mostly positive reviews. The plot revolves around events after the 9/11 attacks when a Muslim architect wins a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial.^[5]

Some of the awards and honors received include:^[6]

• Entertainment Weekly’s Favorite Novel of 2011
• Esquire’s 2011 Book of the Year
• A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
• A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011
• One of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011
• Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011

External links

• Freedom by Amy Waldman
• Article on Islam by Amy Waldman in The Atlantic
• Articles by Amy Waldman in the New York Times

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