Meg Wolitzer | |
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 Wolitzer at the 2011 Texas Book Festival, Austin | |
| Born | (1959-05-28)May 28, 1959 (age 66) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Smith College Brown University |
| Period | 1982–present |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Notable works | The Ten-Year Nap,The Uncoupling,The Interestings |
| Spouse | Richard Panek |
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Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known forThe Wife,The Ten-Year Nap,The Uncoupling,The Interestings, andThe Female Persuasion. She is a co-director of the BookEnds writing fellowship program atStony Brook Southampton.[1]
Wolitzer was born inBrooklyn and raised inSyosset, New York, the daughter of novelistHilma Wolitzer (née Liebman) and psychologist Morton Wolitzer.[2][3] She was raised Jewish.[4] Wolitzer studied creative writing atSmith College and graduated fromBrown 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.[5] Her following books includeHidden Pictures (1986),This Is Your Life (1988),Surrender, Dorothy (1998),The Wife (2003),The Position (2005),The Ten-Year Nap (2008),The Uncoupling (2011), andThe Interestings (2013). Her short story "Tea at the House" was featured in 1998'sBest 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.[6]
She has taught creative writing at theUniversity of Iowa's Writers' Workshop,Skidmore College, and, most recently, was a guest artist atPrinceton University. Over the past decade she has also taught at bothStony Brook Southampton's MFA in Creative Writing program and the Southampton Writers Conference and the Florence Writers Workshop.[7] Three films have been based on her work:This Is My Life, scripted and directed byNora Ephron; the 2006 made-for-television movieSurrender, Dorothy; and the 2017 dramaThe Wife, starringGlenn Close andJonathan Pryce.
The Uncoupling was the subject of the first coast-to-coast virtual book club discussion, viaSkype.[8]
As of 2018, Wolitzer resides on theUpper West Side ofManhattan, with her husband, science writerRichard Panek.[2]
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