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Occupation
  
Novelist, journalist

Name
  
Kira Peikoff

Genre
  
Thriller


Period
  
Late 2000s–present

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Journalist

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Born
  
Kira Lily Peikoff May 21, 1985 (age 38) (
1985-05-21
)

Spouse
  
Matthew Seth Beilis (m. 2012)

Education
  
Columbia University, New York University

Books
  
No Time to Die, Living Proof, Die Again Tomorrow

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Kira Lily Peikoff (; born May 21, 1985) is a journalist and novelist, based in New York City.

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Personal life

Kira Peikoff was born to Objectivist scholar Leonard S. Peikoff and his then-wife Cynthia Pastor Peikoff, a psychotherapist in private practice. Kira Peikoff is the ex-stepdaughter of her father's third ex-wife, Amy Lynn Peikoff. Through her father she is also related to Barbara Branden, who was her cousin once removed.

Kira Peikoff was named after the protagonist in Ayn Rand's We the Living. She grew up in Irvine, California, being home-schooled and then attending Woodbridge High School. Peikoff was raised with Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, but after having read Rand's Atlas Shrugged in college, Peikoff decided to embrace Objectivism for herself. In 2007, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Journalism from New York University.

At a ceremony in Laguna Beach, California, in June 2012, Peikoff married Matthew Seth Beilis, a musician, salesman, and graduate of Columbia University. She continues to use her maiden name professionally. She lives in New York City with her husband and their dog.

Peikoff is currently studying for a master of science degree in bioethics at Columbia University.

Career

During her undergraduate internships, Peikoff wrote about Congressional politics for the Orange County Register and about business and technology for Newsday. She also researched feature stories for New York magazine and wrote for the New York Daily News.

After graduation, Peikoff worked as an editorial assistant for Henry Holt and Company and for Random House. Since 2013, she has worked as a freelance journalist on health and science, having written articles for The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Cosmopolitan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Psychology Today and The Hastings Center Report.

When Peikoff was 13 years old, Gone with the Wind inspired her to become a novelist. In 2008, Peikoff finished writing her debut novel, Living Proof, having taken a year off after university to write it, and in February 2012, it was published. The book, inspired by her disgust towards President George W. Bush's opposition to stem-cell research, is a dystopian thriller set in a future time when embryo destruction is legally considered first-degree murder and fertility clinics are severely regulated by the government. The novel received largely positive reviews, among them a mildly positive review by Publishers Weekly, a mildly negative review by Kirkus Reviews, and positive reviews by Suspense magazine and Mystery Scene magazine.

No Time to Die, a second biomedical thriller by Peikoff, was published in September 2014, receiving mildly positive reviews by the Romantic Times and NJ.com.

Peikoff is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

References

Kira Peikoff Wikipedia