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How to Be a Person in the World, Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir, The Pop‑up Book of C, Ask Polly's Guide to Your Next, Even More Outrageous Celebrity

Profiles

Heather Havrilesky (born circa 1970) is an American author, writer, and humorist. She writes the advice column "Ask Polly" for New York magazine. Her book How to Be a Person in the World was released in July 2016.

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Early work

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In 1996, Havrilesky was brought on as a writer at Suck.com, a webzine that was one of the web's earliest ad-supported content sites. Together with artist Terry Colon, she wrote the popular "Filler" comic strip for the site under the pen name Polly Esther. In May 2001, she began writing an advice column on Suck, but the site went under a month later.

Havrilesky began writing for Salon in 2003 as their TV critic.

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In 2011, Havrilesky became one of the original columnists for The Daily, the world's first iPad-only news app. The site was shuttered by its parent News Corporation in December 2012.

Ask Polly

In 2012, Havrilesky started the popular New York magazine advice column Ask Polly.

Books

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Havrilesky wrote her first book, Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir in 2010. An autobiographical work, it dealt mostly with her upbringing in Durham, North Carolina.

Her second book, How to Be a Person in the World, was released in July 2016. It combined previously published essays from her Ask Polly column with new material.

References

Heather Havrilesky Wikipedia


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