Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman

Waldman at the 2014
Brooklyn Book Festival
Occupation Magazine writer and novelist
Nationality United States
Notable works The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (2013)
Website
Official website

Adelle Waldman is an American novelist, columnist and blogger, known for her 2013 novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., and for her articles for Slate[1] and Vogue magazines[2] and the blog Gawker.[3]

Early life

Adelle Waldman graduated from Brown University in 1998. She later attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[4]

Career

Waldman worked as a reporter at the New Haven Register, located in New Haven, Connecticut; and The Plain Dealer, located in Cleveland, Ohio, and wrote a column for the website of The Wall Street Journal. She has written book reviews and essays for Slate, The New Republic, Vogue.com, and The New York Observer, among others.[5] While writing The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., she worked as an SAT tutor.

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was published in 2013. It follows Nate Piven, a writer living in Brooklyn, New York, and his romantic relationship with a woman named Hannah, whom Nate considers an intellectual match but with whom he finds other faults. Reviews were mixed.[6][7] A translation into German (Das Liebesleben des Nathaniel P.) was published in June 2015.[8]

Waldman later published, as a Kindle single on Amazon.com, a novella telling the same story from the point of view of Aurit, a female friend of Nate's.

Personal life

Her brother, Steve Randy Waldman, is a finance and economics blogger.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Waldman, Adelle (May 2013). "I Read Everything Jane Austen Wrote, Several Times". Slate. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ Waldman, Adelle (June 25, 2014). "Shyness Is Nice (Except on Social Media)". Vogue. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Waldman, Adelle (July 13, 2014). "Middlemarch Showed Me How to Live". Gawker. Archived from the original on August 2, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Author Adelle Waldman strove to create realistic male lead, even if he isn’t likable". The Washington Post. 2013-08-02. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  5. ↑ Staff (undated). "Adelle Walman – About". Adelle Waldman. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ Fan, Jiayang (July 5, 2014). "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P Review – Adelle Waldman's Witty Love Story – Adelle Waldman Brings Austen-Flavoured Crackle to Her Wry Take on the Liaisons of the Brooklyn Literati". The Guardian. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ Russo, Maria (August 4, 2013). "In ‘Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.,’ Women Flummox a Writer". The New York Times. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  8. ↑ Liebeskind 2015. ISBN 978-3954380480.
  9. ↑ Krugman, Paul (January 17, 2013). "All Your Base Are Belong To Us: What Is the Question?". The New York Times. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
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