Occupation novelist, Essayist Role Writer Nationality American Spouse Richard Panek | Genre Literary fiction Parents Hilma Wolitzer Name Meg Wolitzer Movies Surrender, Dorothy | |
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Born May 28, 1959 (age 65)
Brooklyn, New York, United States ( 1959-05-28 ) Notable works The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings Education Brown University, Smith College Books The Interestings, Belzhar, The Wife, The Ten‑Year Nap, The Position Similar People Hilma Wolitzer, Richard Panek, Charles McDougall, Matthew McDuffie Profiles | ||
Meg wolitzer 2015 national book festival
Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American writer, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, and The Interestings. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
Contents
- Meg wolitzer 2015 national book festival
- Meg wolitzer on the second shelf truth and fiction writing the book you want
- Life and career
- Novels
- References
Meg wolitzer on the second shelf truth and fiction writing the book you want
Life and career
Wolitzer was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Hilma Wolitzer (née Liebman), also a novelist, and Morton Wolitzer, a psychologist. She was raised Jewish. Wolitzer studied creative writing at Smith College and graduated from Brown University in 1981. She wrote her first novel, Sleepwalking, a story of three college girls obsessed with poetry and death, while still an undergraduate; it was published in 1982. Her following books include Hidden Pictures (1986), This Is Your Life (1988), Surrender, Dorothy (1998), The Wife (2003), The Position (2005), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Uncoupling (2011), and The Interestings (2013). Her short story "Tea at the House" was featured in 1998's Best American Short Stories collection. Her novel for younger readers, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, was published in 2011.
She also co-authored, with Jesse Green, a book of cryptic crosswords: Nutcrackers: Devilishly Addictive Mind Twisters for the Insatiably Verbivorous (1991), and has written about the relative difficulty women writers face in gaining critical acclaim.
She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, Skidmore College, and, most recently, was a guest artist at Princeton University. Over the past decade she has also taught at both Stony Brook Southampton's MFA in Creative Writing program and the Southampton Writers Conference and the Florence Writers Workshop. Three films have been based on her work; This Is My Life, scripted and directed by Nora Ephron, the 2006 made-for-television movie, Surrender, Dorothy, and the 2017 drama The Wife, starring Glenn Close.
The Uncoupling was the subject of the first coast-to-coast virtual book club discussion, via Skype.
Novels
