Claire Hoffman

Claire Denise Hoffman (born March 5, 1977) is an American journalist, author, and assistant professor of Journalism at the University of California, Riverside.[1]

Hoffman was born and raised in Fairfield, Iowa, where her family was part of the Transcendental Meditation movement. She attended Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment.[2] She has a masters degrees in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a masters degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.

While working for the Los Angeles Times, she profiled the founder of Girls Gone Wild, Joe Francis, in a story titled “Baby Give Me a Kiss.”[3] The piece recounts Francis' battery upon Hoffman as well as his alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl. The story is the most viewed piece on latimes.com.[2]

She writes and has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Portfolio and the Los Angeles Times.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ucr: department of creative writing. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/hoffman/index.html
  2. 1 2 Palmer, B. (n.d.). Brian m. palmer | claire hoffman interview. Retrieved from http://www.brianmpalmer.com/clairehoffman.html
  3. ↑ "Joe Francis: 'Baby, give me a kiss'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  4. ↑ Claire Hoffman, Benjamin Goldhirsh. (2009, August 28). The New York Times, Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/fashion/weddings/30HOFFMAN.html

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