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 and 92nd Street Y.^[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]

Bibliography

Books

Novels

• Marx, Patricia (2007). Him her him again the end of him. New York: Scribner. 
• — (2011). Starting from happy. New York: Simon & Schuster. 

Humor

• Birnbach, Lisa; Hodgman, Ann; Marx, Patricia (2006). 1,003 great things about being Jewish. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel. 
• 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)

Children's books

• Dot in Larryland: The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship, (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Bloombury U.S.A. Children's Books, 2009)

Essays and reporting

• Marx, Patricia (December 8, 2008). "The price is right". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2014-02-01. 
• — (January 16, 2012). "A bushel and a peck". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 87 (44): 32–36. Retrieved 2014-11-10. 
• — (January 14, 2013). "Outsource yourself : the online way to delegate your chores". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 88 (43): 32–35. Retrieved 2015-01-22. 
• — (March 4, 2013). "Ladies". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 35. Retrieved 2015-05-07. 
• — (March 25, 2013). "Patagonia". Goings on About Town. On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 89 (6): 34. Retrieved 2015-09-05. 
• — (August 5, 2013). "Free and the brave". Goings on About Town. On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 89 (23): 9. 
• — (February 3, 2014). "A tale of a tub". Our Far-Flung Correspondents. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2014-02-01. 
• — (October 20, 2014). "Pets allowed : why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?". Our Local Correspondents. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 36–41. Retrieved 2014-12-22. 

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

• Bello, Grace (2011-08-23). "Patricia Marx on Hazing, The New Yorker, and TV Eyebrows". The Hairpin. Retrieved 2012-07-14.  (interview with Patricia Marx)
• Broyard, Bliss (2007-01-14). "Just Dump Him Already". The New York Times. 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. Retrieved 2007-02-01.