Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick (born 14 June 1935 in The Bronx, New York City)[1][2] is an American critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. She was a reporter for the Village Voice from 1969 to 1977.[3] Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. She has published ten books; an eleventh, The Odd Woman and the City, is scheduled for publication in May, 2015.[4] She teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. In the 2014-15 academic year, she is the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa.[5]
Partial bibliography
- In Search of Ali Mahmoud: an American Woman in Egypt (1973, Saturday Review Press) [Nominated for the 1974 National Book Award]
- The Romance of American Communism (1977, Basic Books)
- Essays in Feminism (1978, Harper & Row)
- Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition (1983, Simon and Schuster) [6]
- Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987, Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
- Approaching Eye Level (1996, Beacon Press)
- The End of the Novel of Love (1997, Beacon Press) [ Nominated for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism ]
- The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
- The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
- The Men in My Life (2008, MIT Press) [National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism]
- Women in Science: Then and Now (2009, The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- The Ancient Dream (Sep/Oct 2010, Boston Review)
- Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life. (2011, Yale University Press) [ Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award ]
- The Odd Woman and the City (forthcoming, May 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ) [7]
References
- ↑ Library of Congress authority file (accessed 2 June 2013).
- ↑ Tresa Grauer, entry on Vivian Gornick, Jewish Women's Archives Encyclopedia, URL=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian
- ↑ Tresa Grauer, entry on Vivian Gornick, Jewish Women's Archives Encyclopedia, URL=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian
- ↑ URL=http://english.uiowa.edu/people/vivian-gornick
- ↑ http://english.uiowa.edu/graduate-program/mfa-nonfiction-writing/visiting-writers-series
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books/about/Women_in_Science.html?id=krjaAAAAMAAJ
- ↑ University of Iowa biography of Vivian Gornick, | URl=http://english.uiowa.edu/people/vivian-gornick
External links
- Works by or about Vivian Gornick in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Interview with Gornick in the Boston Review
- Elaine Blair (Winter 2014). "Vivian Gornick, The Art of Memoir No. 2". The Paris Review.