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Natalie Angier '78 is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer for The New York Times and bestselling author. She won the 1991 Pulitzer for science reporting. Her best-known book is Woman: An Intimate Geography, which was a Times bestseller and has been translated into 19 languages. Other books include: Natural Obsessions , an inside look at the world of cancer research and The Beauty of the Beastly , a "hymn to the creatures we'd rather forget." Angier was a founding staff member of the science magazine Discover . She edited The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002. Her newest book is The Canon: What Scientists Wish People Understood About Science. |
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Ginia Bellafante '86 is a New York Times style reporter, writing for "Dining In," "Metropolitan" and other sections, including a recent profile of author Francine du Plessix Gray, also a Barnard alumna. Previously a writer for Time magazine, she famously penned a cover story in 1998 called "Is Feminism Dead?" which put actress Calista Flockhart's face next to feminist icon Gloria Steinem's as the new face of feminism. When Flockhart's show, "Ally McBeal," came to an end in 2002, Bellafante wrote an obit on the program for The Times . |
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Elizabeth Benedict '76 is the author of five novels; her latest, The Practice of Deceit, published by Hougton Mifflin last spring, is a psychological thriller about a marriage coming apart at the seams. A Book of the Month Club selection, the novel is the first-person story of the marriage between a Scarsdale, N.Y., therapist and his South-Boston-born divorce lawyer wife, told from the man's point of view. Benedict is also the author of the novels Almost, Slow Dancing , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; The Beginner's Book of Dreams; Safe Conduct ; and The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers . Her fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in Esquire, Salmagundi, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, The American Prospect, New York Observer , and other publications. She has taught fiction writing at the Harvard Extenion, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Princeton University, the New School for Social Research, Swarthmore and Skidmore Colleges. Her website is elizabethbenedict.com. |
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Brooke Berman (1988-89). Productions include: The Second Stage in NYC, The Play Co in New York City, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago,; The Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville, The Roundtable Ensemble, One Dream, New Georges, Naked Angels; Readings and workshops include The National Theatre Studio in London, The Royal Court Theatre in London, The Childrens Theatre Company in MN, The Play Company, The Denver Center Theater Company, ASK Theater Projects, The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, HERE, The Womens Project, MCC Theater, the Hourglass Group, and others. Brooke was a writer in residence at The Juilliard School where she studied with Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang Other mentors include Anne Bogart and Maria Irene Fornes. Awards and grants: Berilla Kerr Award, Helen Merrill Award, two Francesca Primus Awards, two Lecompte du Nouy awards and a commissioning grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Current projects include the film adaptation of SMASHING for Natalie Portman, a new play and a YA novel entitled COMFORT. Brooke is a member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild, the MCC Playwrights Coalition and is the Director of the Playwrights Lab for the MCC Youth Company where she mentors New York City public high school students. Brooke has been teaching playwriting and workshops dealing with the creative process for writers for eight years with various institutions including Eugene Lang College, the University of Rochester, Soho Rep Theater, the "24 With 5 Collective, and privately. |
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Jami Bernard '78 is an award-winning film critic for the New York Daily News , a humor writer, and the author of seven books, including Breast Cancer: There & Back (Warner Books), and a soon to be released weight-loss memoir from Penguin. She is the editor of The X List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Movies that Turn Us On, due in November 2005 from Da Capo Press. |
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Anne Bernays '52 is the author of eight novels (including Professor Romeo and Growing Up Rich ) and co-author with her husband, Justin Kaplan, of two non-fiction books, Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York and The Language of Names . Her latest novel, Trophy House , will be published in August by Simon & Schuster. At one level, a romantic thriller, at another, the story of a disintegrating marriage, the book explores an enormous house -- the "trophy house" of the title -- that comes to threaten one woman's life and marriage. Bernays' articles, book reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and The Nation . A long-time teacher of writing, she co-wrote a guidebook for writers called What If ? The daughter of Edward Bernays, the "father of public relations," and the grandniece of Sigmund Freud, she has been a key figure in forming New England P.E.N. |
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis '63, a poet and essayist, has published several volumes of poetry, including Drafts 1-38, Toll and DRAFTS. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, Unnumbered: Précis . A poem from the latter book appears in Best American Poetry 2004. Précis was also published as a chapbook from Nomados in 2003. In 2006, the University of Alabama Press will publish Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work , and will reprint The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice , a collection of her essays originally published in 1990. DuPlessis received a 2002 Pew Fellowship for poetry and is professor of English and creative writing at Temple University. |
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Valerie Block '85 published her first novel, Was It Something I Said? in 1998, an urban comedy about two lovers who have everything stacked against them--insanely controlling parents, manic workplaces, and their own confusion. None of Your Business, her latest novel, is a police detective story that features, among other things, a computer crime squad, a frumpy, outspoken secretary, and the two detectives' struggles with marriage, dating, dieting, and nagging mothers. Says Booklist : " No one is immune to scrutiny in this sprawling, entertaining novel full of eccentric New Yorkers whose lives are not proceeding quite as they had planned." |
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Ann Brashares '89 is the bestselling author of the Traveling Pants series for adolescents, which was adapted as a feature film this year. In her debut novel , The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001), and its sequels, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (2003) and Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (2005), Brashares details the intense friendship among four teenage girls: Bridget, Carmen, Lena, and Tibby. Their lives remain connected during their first summer apart through a pair of used jeans that mysteriously fits each of them perfectly. The pants are sent around the world during the summer, as the girls experience love, loss, and all the other elements of teenage angst. She won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award in 2002. A philosophy major at Barnard, Brashares spent a decade as a children's book editor in New York and wrote a Techies series of biographies for young people, including Linus Torvalds, Software Rebel and Steve Jobs . Her first novel for adults will be published next year. |
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Helen Breitwieser '90 is a literary agent and president of Cornerstone Literary Agency in Los Angeles, CA. She has placed many fiction titles that have appeared on the New York Times and national bestseller lists. Among the agency's clients are Essence bestselling author Kayla Perrin, New York Times bestselling authors Carole Matthews and Rachel Lee, and MTV personality Ahmet Zappa. She is a member of the AAR, MWA, Poets & Writers and PEN. Before founding Cornerstone Literary in 1998, she was a literary agent at the William Morris Agency in New York. |
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Rosellen Brown '60 is a widely admired professor and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1984 she was one of Ms. Magazine's twelve Women of the Year and has received an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of the Arts and Letters. She has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is the author of the novels Tender Mercies, Civil Wars, The Autobiography of My Mother, bestseller Before and After and Half A Heart . She also has published many books of poetry and short stories including Cora Fry's Pillow Book and Rosellen Brown Reader . Her stories have frequently been included in O'Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize . |
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Hortense Calisher '32 was born in 1911 and has been producing highly original and acclaimed fiction for more than 60 years. A New Yorker by birth, she has remained so throughout her life and much of her fiction is set in the city. Calisher is one of the most anthologized living short story writers in the United States. Her short stories were first published in The New Yorker in the 1940s and continued to appear for decades. Her most recent book, Tatoo for a Slave , chronicles her own family's slave-owning roots in the South before they migrated north to New York City. Her 22 novels blend deft character analysis with complex story lines; she has been compared to Charles Dickens and Henry James. Her novels include False Entry , Textures of Life , The New Yorkers , Queenie , and Standard Dreaming . A memoir, Herself , was published in 1992 and her collected novellas were published in 1997. She has been president of American P.E.N. and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was nominated for the National Book Award three times. |
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Roberta Caploe '84 is the Executive Editor of Ladies' Home Journal. Previously, Caploe served as Editor-in-Chief of the Youth Entertainment Group at Primedia, Inc., where she was responsible for re-branding and rejuvenating magazines such as Tiger Beat, Bop, Teen Beat and 16. Prior to that, Caploe served as Executive Editor at Seventeen magazine from 1997 -2000. Previously, she was the West Coast Editor of Soap Opera Digest magazine. Concurrent with her positions at Seventeen and Soap Opera Digest, she was a regular correspondent on E! Entertainment's "Gossip Show." She is also the co-author of Melrose Confidential: An Unauthorized Guide to Melrose Place. |
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Suzy McKee Charnas '61 is the author of the groundbreaking novel, The Vampire Tapestry , an original, popular, and critically acclaimed exploration of the vampire mythos. Charnas received a Nebula Award for her novella, Unicorn Tapestry , which is reprinted in Stagestruck Vampires . She also received the Tiptree Award for The Conqueror's Child , the final installment in the controversial series, the Holdfast Chronicles . She received the Hugo Award for Boobs , also reprinted in Stagestruck Vampires . Charnas has also written two vampire novels, four young adult novels, a mainstream novel about art, ghosts, and land fraud set in New Mexico, two plays, and the complete revision of the libretto to a musical, Nosferatu . Born and raised in New York City, she lives in New Mexico. |
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Melissa Clark '90 has written 14 cookbooks, including The Last Course , a collaboration with former Gramercy Tavern pastry chef Claudia Fleming, and East of Paris , with Chef David Bouley of Bouley and Danube restaurants in New York City. After briefly working as a restaurant chef and a caterer, Clark earned an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia and began writing about food in 1993. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Wine & Spirits, Town & Country, and Real Simple . Her collaboration with chef Peter Berley, The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen , received a James Beard award and Julia Child Cookbook award in 2000. |
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Vicki Cobb '58 is the groundbreaking author of more than 80 nonfiction books for children. She is known for her hands-on approach to encourage children's interest and curiosity in science. Ever since 1972 when HarperCollins published her first book, Science Experiments You Can Eat , Cobb's approach has become her trademark. I Face the Wind was selected as the 2004 Sibert Honor Book. Her other recent books include the Discovering Your Senses series, Whirlers and Twirlers: Science Fun with Spinning, and See for Yourself: More Than 100 Experiments for Science Fairs and Projects . She is also a popular speaker for educators and was herself a science teacher and laboratory researcher before turning to writing. Her book Light Action! Amazing Experiments in Optics was co-written with one of her sons Josh, an optical engineer, and illustrated by another son Theo, an artist and art director. |
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Nina Collins '90 is a founding partner of Collins McCormick Literary Agency in New York. For 10 years before becoming an agent she was a scout for foreign publishers and film companies. Her particular interests are literary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction in the areas of psychology, history, gender, relationship and family issues, parenting, and health. |
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Galaxy Craze '93 published her first novel, By the Shore , in 2000, the story of a 12-year-old girl living with her single mother and baby brother at a struggling seaside English bed and breakfast. Narrated by the 12-year-old May, the book is a coming-of-age story which received critical praise and has been translated into five languages. Craze is at work on a second novel. She is also a film actor who has appeared in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives and other films . Craze received her MFA in creative writing at New York University on a full scholarship from The New York Times . In the fall of 2003, Craze returned to Barnard to lead a discussion of By the Shore in the first-year orientation program. |
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Edwidge Danticat '90 was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1969 and moved to the United States when she was 12 to join her parents who had emigrated earlier. Her first languages were Creole and French and she spoke almost no English when she arrived in the United States. By age 26, she had been nominated for the National Book Award for Krik? Krak! , her collection of short stories about Haiti and Haitian-Americans longing for political freedom and democracy. Her early memories of Haiti combined with her deep love for and connection to all things Haitian would influence her acclaimed books both in style and content. A French literature major at Barnard, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at Brown University. Her thesis became the published novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory , later an Oprah Book Club selection. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones , won the American Book Award in 1999, and her latest, The Dew Breaker , has received much critical acclaim. She is the editor of The Butterfly Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures. She has also written a novel about Haiti for young readers, Behind the Mountains . |
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Stacey D'Erasmo '83 is the author of the novels Tea , a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2000), and A Seahorse Year , named one of the Best Books of the Year (2004) by The San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday , and winner of both a Ferro-Grumley Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Ploughshares , among other publications. She was a Stegner Fellow in fiction from 1995-1997. |
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Delia Ephron '66 is a novelist, humor writer and Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include major films like Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail , Michael and most recently the screen adaptation of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . Her novels include Hanging Up and Big City Eyes and her nonfiction bestsellers are How To Eat Like a Child and Teenage Romance or How To Die of Embarrassment . She is also the author of Funny Sauce and Do I Have to Say Hello? and has written two children's books: My Life (and Nobody Else's) and The Girl Who Changed the World . Her humor, essays, and commentary have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the New York Times, Vogue , and Rosie . |
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Molly Friedrich '74 has been vice president of the Aaron Priest Literary Agency for 25 years, and represents some of today's top authors including novelists Jane Smiley, Sue Grafton, Terry McMillan, Melissa Bank, Sheri Holman, Lisa Scottoline, Elizabeth Strout, and Cathleen Schine. Her non-fiction list concentrates on either memoir (most notably, Frank McCourt and Susannah Sonnenberg) or some form of narrative cultural history, including the books of her late father Otto Friedrich. She began her career in publishing as an editorial assistant at Doubleday and became an associate editor, then publicity director at Anchor Press. Years later, she apprenticed herself to a literary agent to learn that angle of the business. |
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Genevieve Gallagher ’96 was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa following graduation, then began her career as a children’s librarian with the New York Public Library. She writes reviews of books for children and young adults for School Library Journal and Library Media Connection. She serves on the Randolph Caldecott Committee, which awards the prestigious Caldecott Award for children’s literature. Gallagher has a master’s degree in library and information science from Pratt Institute and currently is an elementary school librarian in Charlottesville, Va. |
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Ellen Geiger '71 is a senior agent with the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, home of such authors as Barbara Kingsolver, Dorothy Allison and Adrienne Rich. The agency cultivates authors of both fiction and non-fiction who favor progressive politics, feminism, multi-cultural issues and social change, and is well known for this perspective. A former PBS executive, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for the documentary The Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist and won many awards as Associate Producer of The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter. She is a past president of New York Women in Film and Television and a member of the Women's Media Group, the PEN Freedom to Write Committee, and Words Without Borders. |
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Alexis Gelber '74 develops special issues, features and entrepreneurial projects as Director of Special Projects at Newsweek . Previously, she was managing editor of Newsweek International , overseeing editorial content for both the domestic magazine and its six overseas editions. Gelber has supervised some of Newsweek 's most successful special issues, such as the issue on early childhood development "Your Child: Birth to Three" (2000), which became a five-day series on NBC's "Today" show. She also edited the 1997 edition of "Your Child," the most widely distributed issue in Newsweek 's history, which was featured at a White House conference. |
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Nieca Goldberg '79 is a cardiologist and a nationally recognized pioneer in women's heart health. Goldberg is the author of the award-winning and highly acclaimed book Women Are Not Small Men: Life-Saving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease in Women , considered to be the "bible" on heart disease and women. Dr. Goldberg has her own practice, "Total Heart Care," in Manhattan, is Chief of Women's Cardiac Care at Lenox Hill Hospital, and a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , The New York Post , The New York Daily News , Fitness Magazine , Glamour , Good Housekeeping and many other publications about the subject of women and heart disease. |
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Mary Gordon '71, the Millicent McIntosh Professor of English and Writing at Bamard, has published bestselling novels, including Final Payments, The Company of Women, Men and Angels, and The Other Side, as well as a book of novellas, a collection of short stories, a stirring memoir about her father, The Shadow Man, two books of essays, including the autobiographical Seeing Through Places, a biography of Joan of Arc and criticism; she is known for her deep insights into Catholic family life, Catholic spirituality, the conflicts facing modern women, thwarted love, moral struggle, personal sacrifice, female identity and family pain. Her most recent novel, Pearl (2005) explores the role of art, politics and religion in our daily lives, and the incomparable bond between mother and child. In his review of Pearl for The New York Times Book Review , John Leonard described Gordon as "endlessly inquisitive and utterly fearless." Gordon is the recipient of a Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the 1997 O Henry prize for best short story, and a Radcliffe Institute fellowship in 2003-04. |
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Julie Grau '85 is Vice President and Publisher of Riverhead Books, a division of The Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Her authors include Jennifer Belle, Ellen Burstyn, Edward Conlon, Margaret Cho, Junot Díaz, Nuala O'Faolain, Suze Orman, Iain Pears, Elliot Perlman, A. J. Verdelle, and Sarah Waters. Before joining Riverhead, Ms. Grau was an editor at Random House, where she worked with such authors as Ann Beattie, Sandra Cisneros, Susanna Kaysen, David Mamet, Anchee Min, Julia Phillips, Mario Puzo, Sister Helen Prejean, and Milos Forman, among others. Grau is the editor of Edward Hopper and the American Imagination (W. W. Norton/Whitney Museum of American Art) and a contributing editor to Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art from 1900-1950, Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art (University of California Press). She has written for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle. She has a masters degree from the Columbia Journalism School. |
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Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal '66 was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay, and received the PEN West Screenplay Award and the Golden Globe® Award, for her screenplay RUNNING ON EMPTY. She also wrote and produced A DANGEROUS WOMAN, starring Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey and Gabriel Byrne and LOSING ISAIAH with Jessica Lange and Halle Berry. Gyllenhaal recently completed GRACE, a biography of Grace Metalious, the author of Peyton Place, for Sandra Bullock and Fox 2000 and is at work on a film about Victoria Woodhull. Gyllenhaal was involved with the development of Sesame Street and The Electric Company at the Children’s Television Workshop and has an ongoing interest in progressive politics. She is actively involved with the Sundance Institute's Writer's Laboratory, has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, West and is currently a member of the WGA Screen Council. Her children Maggie and Jake are actors and her husband, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a director. |
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Melissa Haley ' 89 is a non-fiction writer and archivist, most recently at Trinity Church. She was awarded the 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts $25,000 grand prize for exceptional promise in non-fiction. She was cited for an essay, "Unriddling," in which she probes the inner life of Dr. Alexander Anderson, a New York physician who lived from 1775 to 1870, based on her reading of his unpublished diary. Haley's essays probe the interrelated themes of history and place and have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Scholar, Common-place, and Post Road . She studied American history at Barnard. |
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Saskia Hamilton (faculty) is a poet, Barnard faculty member, and director of the Women Poets program at Barnard. She is the editor of the 855-page collection, The Letters of Robert Lowell , published this year by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. A graduate of Kenyon College, Hamilton has published a poetry volume, As for Dream , and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Colorado Review, the Kenyon Review , and the Threepenny Review , among other journals. Hamilton won a Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. |
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Amy Hassinger '94 is the author of a debut novel, Nina: Adolescence (2003), about the creative and sexual awakening of 15-year-old Nina Begley as she struggles to emerge from her family's grief after the accidental death of her little brother. Deemed "superb" by O, The Oprah Magazine and "truly penetrating" by Salon.com, the audio recording of Nina: Adolescence received a Listen Up Award from Publisher's Weekly and was chosen as Audio Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine. Her novel, The Priest's Madonna, is coming out this March from Putnam. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arts and Letters, Natural Bridge, and Blithe House Quarterly Online and has been anthologized in Best Lesbian Love Stories. Hassinger is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is on the faculty of the University of Nebraska's Low-residency MFA in Writing Program. |
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CANCELLED Monique Raphel High '69 has published six novels: The Four Winds of Heaven (a roman à clef based on her own grandmother's life), Encore, The Keeper of the Walls, Thy Father's House, The Eleventh Year and Between Two Worlds as well as a nonfiction book. She is the founder of WriteHigh, a literary management firm with an international clientele and offices in London and Paris. Before launching the firm in 1997, she taught at the UCLA Extension Writers Program and now serves as writing coach, editor and teacher through her website, WriteHigh.com . A Parisian who lives in Los Angeles, High is the granddaughter of a Russian Baroness, Sofia Sara de Gunzburg. High was brought up in Paris, Rome and Amsterdam in a literary milieu--her mother, Dina Raphel, was one of the agents of Irwin Shaw and James Jones. She was also a movie brat, as her father, David Raphel, was in the film business. She is fluent in French, Spanish, Rumanian and Italian. |
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Maria Hinojosa '84 is an urban affairs correspondent for CNN based in New York and host of the National Public Radio weekly program, "Latino USA." A Mexican-American, she penned a column for Time magazine, "Living La Vida Latina" and has written a critically acclaimed memoir, Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son , and a book that was born from an award-winning story about gang members, Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa . She has won numerous broadcast awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Radio Award and Top Story of the Year Award, and the Ruben Salazar Award from the National Council of La Raza. |
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Dana Jacobi '66 has written five cookbooks, three short-listed for prestigious awards, and collaborated on three, including The Joy of Cooking . She contributes to Cooking Light, Food & Wine and other magazines, and writes a syndicated weekly newspaper column, Something Different . Jacobi pioneered culinary writing online, as food editor at Prodigy and created Amazon.com's first cookbook content. A guest chef on websites and a spokesperson, she also teaches cooking classes and consults. She began writing after 20 years as a marketing executive, an apprenticeship in France with three-star chefs, and operating a catering service. |
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Sharon Johnson '85 has created several original television series and has been a writer on such shows as The Sinbad Show (Fox), Buddies (ABC) and Goode Behavior (UPN). She produced and directed a staged pilot of her original half-hour comedy, Family Business , at the Writers Guild Theatre and the pilot of her one-hour drama, Legacy , at the Writers Guild. She is a past chair of the Committee of Black Writers of the Writers Guild of America, west Inc. She wrote the opening speech for Sen. Barack Obama for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences October 2004 diversity summit, Television's Challenges in Black, White... And Multi-Color . Johnson has independently produced and hosted events that support and galvanize African American and women writers in Hollywood. |
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Erica Jong '63 bestselling novelist and poet, is best known for her groundbreaking first novel published in 1973, Fear of Flying -- one of the most influential books ever on women's sexuality. The uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her exhilarating romp introduced a new phrase to the English language, while being translated into 27 languages and selling 12.5 million copies worldwide. Jong has penned another seven novels, including the recent Sappho's Leap , and several nonfiction titles, as well as six volumes of poetry. Her latest books include Inventing Memory and the best-selling Fear of Fifty , which discusses women facing midlife. She has published her first children's book, Megan's Two Houses , to help parents and children deal with divorce. Jong has received the prestigious Bess Hokin Prize of Poetry (also won by Sylvia Plath,) the United Nations Award of Excellence in Literature, and the Premio International Sigmund Freud in Italy. Jong is the benefactor for the Erica Mann Jong ' 63 Writing Center at Barnard. |
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Julia Jordan '89 had four plays being produced in New York last season. They were: ST. SCARLET at the Ontological directed by Chris Messina and produced by WET; TATJANA IN COLOR (winner of The Francesca Primus Prize, short-listed for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and included in Best Plays by Women, 1997) at the Culture Project directed by Will Pomerantz; SUMMER OF THE SWANS, a play for children at The Lortel; and BOY at Primary Stages. She also wrote musical books for SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL (Kleban Award) and for THE MICE (Jonathan Larson Award) which was produced at the Ahmanson in LA as part of Harold Prince's THREE. She has had two ten minute plays at the Humana Festival; NIGHTSWIM and MPLS/ST.PAUL, a Heideman Award Winner. Her short film THE HAT, which she wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance and was the most played short shown on IFC in 2001-2002. She is a Juilliard Playwright Fellow, Manhattan Theater Club Fellow, Member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild. She holds an M. Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. She teaches advanced playwriting at Barnard. |
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Alexa Junge ,'85 is a writer on the Emmy award-winning television series "The West Wing." She has also written for such hit shows as "Friends," "Once and Again," and "Veronica's Closet." In 1999, Junge was nominated for an Emmy for a "Friends" episode titled "The One Where Everybody Finds Out," in which the characters Phoebe and Ross find out about Monica and Chandler's relationship. She was also a producer and creative consultant for HBO's "Sex and the City," which starred Cynthia Nixon, also a Barnard alumna. |
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Frances Kiernan '66 is a biographer and editor who was a fiction editor at The New Yorker for 20 years. She is the author of the biography, Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy , about the stormy life of the American intellectual and writer. Kiernan is currently writing a biography of Brooke Astor, the philanthropist, which will be published by Norton. Kiernan also was a book editor at Houghton Mifflin. |
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Suki Kim '92 was born and raised in South Korea and came to New York at age 13. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books , The New York Times , The Boston Globe and Newsweek . Her first novel, The Interpreter , published in 2003, won the PEN Beyond Margins Award, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and was a runner up for the PEN Hemingway Prize. Kim is currently working on a second novel, but she is reticent to give away any details about it. "It's different," she says. "That's all I can say. The Interpreter fully explored the duality of the Korean-American world. Now it's exciting to move on to a new territory." |
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Stephanie Klein '97, dubbed 'the internet queen of Manhattan' by The Independent, is a writer, photographer (her photographs appear in all rooms and corridors of The Hotel Gansevoort) and popular blogging mistress. Her website http://stephanieklein.blogs.com has been featured on the cover of The New York Times Sunday Styles section, where she was named amongst "the top 1 percent of all bloggers." Of the world's more than 13 million blogs, there are only 730 or so with more inbound links than hers. (The top 100-ranked blogs tend to offer news and political commentary; single-subject or niche blogs like Ms. Klein's, even the most popular, are generally further down the list.) Ms. Klein's first memoir Straight Up & Dirty will be published April, 2006 by Regan Books, Judith Regan's HarperCollins imprint. Klein is currently writing for NBC Studios, working to develop her book into a half-hour comedy series, while also attending to her second book about her experiences at fat camp. |
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Alex Kuczynski '90 launched the "Critical Shopper" column for The New York Times Styles section this year, reviewing the retail world and shopping as a critic. She has explored the culture of outlet shopping, golf attire and fashion appeals to teen shoppers in recent columns. Doubleday will publish Kuczynski's book, Beauty Junkies , about the obsession with beauty, in January 2006. As a Times style reporter, Kuczynski has written on a range of current topics, from Botox and Britney Spears to Buddhism. Her articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Allure, and The New York Times Book Review and Magazine. |
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Jhumpa Lahiri '89 won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut story collection , Interpreter of Maladies (2000), which was translated into 29 languages and became a bestseller both in the United States and abroad. She and writer Edwidge Danticat, also a Barnard alumna, were included on The New Yorker' s list of new writers for the millennium. Lahiri followed her extraordinary publishing debut with her first novel , The Namesake (2003), about two generations of an Indian family. The New York Times called the book "quietly dazzling." Lahiri was born in London to Bengali parents, and raised in Rhode Island. After Barnard, she studied at Boston University, receiving master's degrees in English, creative writing, comparative studies in literature and the arts and a doctorate in renaissance studies. She has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to the Pulitzer , Interpreter of Maladies received the PEN/Hemingway Award, The New Yorker Debut of the Year award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. |
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Jane Leavy '74 is the author of The New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and the acclaimed comic novel, Squeeze Play (2003), described by Entertainment Weekly as "the best baseball novel ever." Leavy was a staff writer at The Washington Post for 11 years. She wrote for the Sports section, covering baseball, tennis and the Olympics, as well as for the Style section where she wrote long features and comic essays. Her work has been anthologized in countless collections, most recently in Coach, published last month by Warner Books. She is currently working on a biography of Mickey Mantle, and a novel exploring Babe Ruth's racial heritage, both for HarperCollins. |
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Louise Levathes '70 is a print and broadcast journalist who specializes in science and culture. She has been a staff writer and editor at the Washington Star, the (New York) Daily News, National Geographic, and Health magazine as well as a reporter and producer for CNN and WETA. Her book on Chinese maritime history and navigation, When China Ruled the Seas, was on The New York Times List of Notable Books of the Year (1994), and is the basis of an upcoming National Geographic documentary series. She won a Deadline Club award for science reporting (1978) and was a Neiman Fellow finalist (1984). She is currently working on a book about race relations in medieval Spain and is a visiting scholar in the department of history at The Johns Hopkins University. She received an M.S. in journalism in '71 from Columbia University. |
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Lourdes Lopez '80 was assistant to the theatrical agent, Helen Merrill, whose clients who included Michael Greif, Christopher Durang and María Irene Fornés. In 1991 she joined Georges Borchardt, Inc. where she represented John Ashbery, Robert Fagles, Richard Rodriguez, Adam Hochschild and the Estate of Samuel Beckett (North American rights). Lourdes has been an independent agent since 2003. Her recent projects include a collection of poems by Ann Lauterbach, HUM , and a selection of her essays, THE NIGHT SKY . She is also working with a new author, Nir Rosen, on a forthcoming book on post-war Iraq to be published in early 2006 by The Free Press. |
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Barbara Lovenheim '62 is an investigative journalist who has written for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and New York magazine, among others. Her second book, Survival in the Shadows, Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler's Berlin (2003), tells the remarkable story of seven survivors -- the largest known group of German Jews to survive in hiding in the heart of the Third Reich -- and the 50 non-Jewish Germans who risked their lives to protect them. In 1998 she founded NYCitylife , a lifestyle magazine for professional women and men. She also directs a small foundation that produces books for charities; currently she is editing a book for the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Jewish resistance during WWII. She has interviewed many celebrities, including Katharine Hepburn, Hillary Clinton, Mia Farrow, Gregory Peck and Robert Redford. Her first book, Beating the Marriage Odds (1990) was a study of marriage patterns for women over 35. She has a Ph.D. in English literature and has taught at the City University of New York and New York University. |
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Ellen McLaughlin (faculty) is a playwright and a Tony Award-winning actor who has worked both on and off Broadway. She is best known for originating the role of Angel in Tony Kushner's Angels in America , for which she won a Tony. She has worked in collaboration with Kushner for 20 years. McLaughlin, who teaches at Barnard, has written nine plays that have been produced on and off Broadway, including Days and Nights Within , A Narrow Bed , Helen , The Persians , and Oedipus . Her plays have been produced at the National Actors' Theater, The Public Theater, and the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota, among others. She has won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writer's Award. An anthology of her work, The Greek Plays , was published by Theatre Communications Group. |
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CANCELLED Eileen McNamara, '74, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Boston Globe. Her writing on social issues, such as domestic violence and the racial disparity in infant mortality rates, has earned her national recognition for her commitment to the disadvantaged. She is the author of BREAKDOWN, an examination of a psychiatric malpractice case about the suicide of a Harvard medical student. She is a lecturer in the Journalism Program at Brandeis University. |
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Daphne Merkin '75 has published an autobiographical novel, Enchantment , which won the Edward Lewis Wallant award for best fiction based on a Jewish theme, and an essay collection, Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations . Known for unnerving candor in her essays, Merkin writes about family, religion, sex, and has explored Freud and his legacy; Marilyn Monroe; the women's movement; chick lit; psychiatric hospitalization; and the meaning of money. For many years a New Yorker staff writer, she currently writes a column, "Provocateur," for Elle magazine. She is working on a memoir of depression, Melancholy Baby . Her essays are included in many anthologies: Women on Divorce: A Bedside Companion; Writing Our Way Home: Contemporary Stories by American Jewish Writers; Sixty Years of Great Fiction from Partisan Review; Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible ; and recently, A Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt . She teaches writing at the 92 nd Street Y in New York City. |
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Eliza Minot '91 is at work on a second novel, The Brambles , to be published in May 2006 by Knopf. Her first novel, The Tiny One , was a New York Times notable book for 1999. The novel is a study of an eight-year-old girl on the verge of a life-changing occurrence -- the death of her mother in an accident. Minot's work has appeared in Allure, Real Simple, New York Times Magazine, Travel and Leisure Family , and is included in two anthologies, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships and Sex and Sensibility. |
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Julie Moos '87 is managing editor of Poynter Online, journalists' number one source of industry information, and publications manager for The Poynter Institute. She also blogs at MomintheMirror.com and has created a group weblog for mothers (Dot-Moms.com) that has been included in Time's list of coolest websites and featured in Parenting, The New York Times and elsewhere. Moos holds seminars for women on starting a web log. She writes a biweekly column published on about 70 television station websites managed by Internet Broadcasting Systems. |
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Meg Mullins '95 will publish her first novel, The Rug Merchant (Viking) in March 2006. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including The Sonora Review, The Baltimore Review, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly and the Best American Short Stories. She is a native of New Mexico and lives there today. Mullins earned an MFA at Columbia. |
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Dana Points '88 is the executive editor of SELF magazine and has specialized in health coverage for magazines for more than a decade. She was named executive editor of SELF in August 1999. Previously, she was executive editor of American Health magazine and before that, an editor at Mademoiselle magazine. Points is a frequent guest on "NBC News Today," CNN, "Good Morning America," and "Good Day New York." |
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Anna Quindlen '74 is the bestselling author of four novels, Blessings, Black and Blue, One True Thing, and Object Lessons , and writes the widely read "The Last Word" column for Newsweek . As a columnist for The New York Times ("Public and Private") she won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992. Her columns have been collected in the books Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud . She has written two children's books and two works of nonfiction, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, based on a commencement speech she gave, and How Reading Changed My Life . Throughout her career, Quindlen has been active as an alumna of Barnard and is now chair of the Barnard Board of Trustees. In her latest book, Being Perfect , she shares her thoughts on avoiding "the perfection trap" and living an authentic life. |
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Phyllis Raphael '57 is the author of the novel, They Got What They Wanted and the story/essay collection, Beating The Love Affair Rap and Other Tales. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Harpers, The Village Voice, The American Book Review, Boulevard, Creative Non Fiction Magazine, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Vogue, Redbook and the Norton Anthology, Seasons of Women. She is a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award winner, a Pushcart Prize nominee and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University. Her memoir, Off The Kings Road, an American in London, 1968-1971, will be published next year. |
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Atoosa Rubenstein '93 was named editor-in-chief of Seventeen , the largest circulation teen magazine, in 2003, following five years at the helm of CosmoGirl, a magazine she created at age 26, becoming the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of Hearst publishing. After graduating from Barnard, Rubenstein worked under the renowned editor Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmopolitan and within five years was promoted to senior fashion editor. In 1998, the president of Hearst asked her to create a new teen title. Within 48 hours, she presented the prototype for CosmoGirl! She has been featured in Crain's New York Business' "40 Under 40" leaders. |
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Lauren Sanders ' 87 has published a second novel, With or Without You (Akashic Books) that Publishers' Weekly hailed as a "vibrant, vigorous...sendup of America's obsession with pop culture, B-list celebrities and prison life, peopled by a cast of lonely, desperate characters whose only fault is that they love too much." Sanders's debut novel, Kamikaze Lust, won a Lambda Literary Award and took on, among other things, the complicated relationship between women and pornography. Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including the American Book Review, Poets & Writers, and Time Out/New York , and online at Lodestar Quarterly, Nerve.com and the Melic Review. One short story, "The Edge of the Edge," was selected for e2ink-1: The Best of the Online Journals 2002 . Sanders is coeditor of the anthology Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since Kinsey , a literary study of America's shifting views of sex and sexuality. She was also a founding member of Jezebelle2000, a multi-city spoken-word tour dedicated to showcasing the work of independent authors around the country. |
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Cathleen Schine '77 has drawn comparisons to Jane Austen and George Eliot from critics for her acclaimed novels -- modern-day comedies of manners, praised as "social satires with heart." Her six novels include Alice in Bed , To the Birdhouse , The Evolution of Jane , She Is Me , and the international bestsellers Rameau's Niece and The Love Letter , both of which were made into feature films. The New Yorker has praised Schine for writing with the "speed and punch of a seasoned comic." |
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Robyn Schneider ’08 is the author of the forthcoming young adult “chick literary” novel Better Than Yesterday (Random House/Delacorte). She is the creator of the website "Correspondences with YA Fiction Agents" and co-curator of the Barbes Reading Series. A member of YA Author Blogs, Robyn keeps a popular blog called Queued Paper, about being a “reluctantly-stereotyped 19-year-old chick lit writer trying to navigate life in New York City.” |
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Audrey Schulman '85 has written three novels: The Cage, Swimming with Jonah and A House Named Brazil. Her work has been translated into 11 languages and reviewed by major publications, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. A House Named Brazil is written from the first-person perspective of a teenager abandoned by her mother. Like the family in the novel, Schulman's own family has moved back and forth between South America and Canada; her mother was raised in Brazil and her father in Canada. Swimming with Jonah takes place on a tiny Indonesian island, where Jane Gay, the awkward, insecure child of a world-renowned American physician, has come to attend Queen's Medical School. The Cage, Schulman's debut novel and a bestseller in Canada, balances adventure, suspense and self-discovery; it is the story of a nature photographer on an arctic expedition to photograph polar bears up close from inside a small iron cage. The Cage was optioned for a movie by the director Wes Craven. |
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz '59 is the award-winning author of 19 books of fiction and non-fiction, lauded for her precise observations in domestic dramas and comedies. The aftermath of the World Trade Center attack provides a traumatic backdrop to Schwartz's latest novel, The Writing on the Wall , an examination of how the defining event of our time affects one woman. Her books include Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award); In the Family Way : An Urban Comedy ; the memoir Ruined by Reading; Referred Pain ; and Disturbances in the Field . She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. |
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Ellen Handler Spitz '61 is a writer and scholar who specializes in aesthetics and in psychological interpretation in the literary, visual, and performing arts. She has written numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Art and Psyche, Image and Insight, Museums of the Mind, Inside Picture Books , and, forthcoming in January, 2006 , The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood (Pantheon Books). Spitz earned a master's degree at Harvard's School of Education and a Ph.D. in social sciences at Columbia; she has been a resident fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Radcliffe (Bunting) Institute, the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, the Camargo Foundation, and the Clark Art Institute. Currently, she is Honors College Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland. |
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Susan Levitt Stamberg '59 is a pioneer of National Public Radio known for her down-to-earth fresh approach over four decades as a broadcast journalist. She began her NPR career when the network was launched in 1971. A special correspondent and guest host of "Morning Edition" and "Weekend Edition Saturday," Stamberg reports primarily on cultural issues. She was a co-host of the award-winning "All Things Considered" for 14 years and is the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program; in 1994, she was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, and in 1996, the Radio Hall of Fame. She has won every major broadcasting award, including Armstrong and Dupont Awards, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. Her many interviews include conversations with Laura Bush, Annie Leibowitz, Rosa Parks, Billy Joel, and Philip Roth. Stamberg has written two books, Every Night at Five: Susan Stamberg All Things Considered and Talk: NPR's Susan Stamberg Considers All Things . She co-edited The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road . |
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Jessica Stern '85 served on the National Security Council in the Clinton White House as head of the Nuclear Smuggling Interagency Group for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs. She established the Nuclear Smuggling Group, helping to control nuclear smuggling and fissile materials security. She currently teaches at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and is the author of two books on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, Terror In the Name of God (2003) and The Ultimate Terrorists (1999). She was named a superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a national Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She was also the inspiration for Nicole Kidman's character in The Peacemaker, a Dreamworks film about nuclear-weapons terrorism. |
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Cyndi Stivers '78, founder of TimeOut New York , was recently named Executive Vice President of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where she will oversee new business development, such as Martha Stewart Living Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio. TimeOut , which Stivers founded in 1995 and where she was editorial director until this year, has been lauded as the "best and brightest weekly guide to Gotham." Stivers was responsible for launching editions of TimeOut in other cities and, under her direction, new products such as TimeOut New York Kids , a print on-line hybrid, and four annual publications. TimeOut New York has won several national magazine awards and the GLAAD Media Award (2000) and Bailey House Key Award (2002.) |
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Karen Swenson ' 59, award-winning poet and journalist, has traveled extensively in Asia, incorporating her journeys into her writing. She has written four volumes of poetry including: The Landlady in Bangkok, which won a National Poetry Series Prize; A Sense of Direction; East-West; and An Attic of Ideals. She has also published travel articles in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She presently teaches at New York University and Purchase College, and she leads trips to Tibet during the summer. |
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Jeanine Tesori '83 is a three-time Tony Award-winning writer/composer of original musical scores. She is a composer, record producer, dance arranger, vocal arranger and conductor . Her most recent Tony was in 2004 for the original score to the critically acclaimed Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner. She previously won for Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002 and Twelfth Night in 1999 . In 2004, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers presented Tesori a special plaque to mark her accomplishments as the first female composer to have two hit musicals running concurrently on Broadway. Tesori produces an educational music series used nationwide in schools comprised of 90 CD's of all music genres such as world music, classical, rock and ethnic. |
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Suzanne Vega ‘81, the singer-songwriter and urban poet, earned three Grammy nominations in 1987 for "Luka," her song about an abused child. With that success, Vega helped usher in a female, acoustic, folk-pop singer-songwriter movement that would resonate in the music of Tracy Chapman, Shawn Colvin, and Indigo Girls as well as the Lilith Fair phenomenon. Vega has produced five albums and a greatest hits collection; she is also the author of Bullet in Flight and The Passionate Eye, the latter compiling writings and song lyrics from a 30-year period. Publisher’s Weekly said of The Passionate Eye: “Like her music, Vega's prose is studded with precise images that prove her a keen observer of the world around her… there is a poignant mixture of toughness and fragility in Vega's work that will resonate even with readers who've never heard her sing.” |
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Catherine Wald '76 this year published her first book, The Resilient Writer: Tales of Rejection and Triumph by Twenty Top Authors , in which she explores the joy of writing along with the uncertainties, frustrations, annoyances, and perils through interviews with authors Bret Easton Ellis, Arthur Golden, Kathryn Harrison, M.J. Rose, and Wally Lamb, among others. Wald h as written for Reader's Digest, Writer's Digest, Woman's Day, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Poets & Writers . Her popular website Rejectioncollection.com has been cited by Writer's Digest as a top site for writers. She has been awarded fellowships by the Ragdale Foundation and awards from Writer's Digest and Women in Communications. Her work has been anthologized in The Essay Writer at Work and The Practical Writer . |
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Jeannette Walls '84 wrote this year's bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle , based on her nomadic and deprived childhood in a family where the children had to rifle through trash cans at school looking for food. The no-holds barred story chronicles Walls' efforts to rise above this early difficult life, becoming a journalist and writer. Walls has been a gossip correspondent for the E! Channel and MSNBC and a contributor to USA Today, Esquire and New York Magazine's " Intelligencer." She is the author of Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip and Dish: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show . She has also written Nannie's Kitchen Keepsakes and Recipes . |
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Sharon Waxman '85 is the Hollywood correspondent for The New York Times and winner of the prestigious Penney Prize in 2000, the highest prize for feature writing. She previously was a correspondent for The Washington Post, the paper's first reporter to cover the entertainment industry from Los Angeles. She is the author of Rebels on the Backlot , about the wave of directing talent -- Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, David O. Russell and Spike Jonze -- that took the Hollywood studio system by storm in the 1990s. Waxman earned a master's in philosophy from Oxford and is fluent in French, Hebrew and Arabic. She spent a decade reporting from abroad in Europe and the Middle East, focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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Karen Wilkin '62 is an art critic and independent curator who has written about and organized exhibitions of the artists Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Hans Hofmann. She is the contributing art editor of the Hudson Review and a regular contributor to The New Criterion, Art in America, and the Wall Street Journal . She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program of the New York Studio School, and lectures at museums worldwide. Currently, she is preparing a collection of her own critical essays and an exhibition of "The Four Musketeers," Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Willem de Kooning, in collaboration with William C. Agee and Irving Sandler. In collaboration with Mr. Agee, she is a contributing editor of the Stuart Davis Catalogue Raisonné. |
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Batya Swift Yasgur '78 writes fiction and non-fiction, including Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom , the story of several Afghan women under the Taliban, including one she met while researching and writing an earlier book, America: A Freedom Country (published by the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service). Yasgur has won literary prizes from the Mystery Writers of America and the Coalition of Alternatives in Jewish Education. She also co-wrote Women at Risk , a book about cervical cancer and the HIV virus. |
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Eugenia Zukerman ’66 enjoys successful careers in many fields: as a professional flutist, television arts reporter and novelist. She has been an arts correspondent for CBS News’ “Sunday Morning” since 1980, and has appeared on PBS’ “Charlie Rose Show, “NBC’s “Today” and A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts.” Zuckerman has also been published in a number of periodicals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire and Vogue. She is the author of two novels, a non-fiction book, and most recently, In My Mother´s Closet, an anthology of narratives on the mother/daughter relationship created from interviews with accomplished women. |
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Faye Kellerman began her career as a dentist but turned to writing after the birth of her eldest child in 1978. She is the author of the highly popular Peter Decker mystery series and has also written one historical mystery. She has four children and lives with them and her husband, novelist and psychologist Jonathan Kellerman, in Los Angeles.
Like his fictional protagonist, Alex Delaware, author Jonathan Kellerman received at Ph.D. in psychology at the age of 24, with a specialty in the treatment of children; he conducted groundbreaking work on the psychological effects of cancer on children. His first published book was a medical text on this subject in 1980. A year later, he wrote a book for parents, Helping the Fearful Child. In 1985, his first novel, When the Bough Breaks, published to critical and commercial success, becoming a New York Times bestseller. Since then, he has published a bestselling crime novel every year, occasionally two a year. In addition, he has written and illustrated two books for children and a nonfiction volume on childhood violence, Savage Spawn. |
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