Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick (born 14 June 1935 in The Bronx, New York City)^[1][2] is an American critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. She was a reporter for the Village Voice from 1969 to 1977.^[3] Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. She has published eleven books; the most recent, The Odd Woman and the City, was published in May, 2015.^[4] She teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. In the 2014-15 academic year, she was the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa.^[5]

Partial bibliography

• In Search of Ali Mahmoud: an American Woman in Egypt (1973, Saturday Review Press) (Nominated for the 1974 National Book Award)
• The Romance of American Communism (1977, Basic Books)
• Essays in Feminism (1978, Harper & Row)
• Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition (1983, Simon & Schuster)^[6]
• Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987, Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
• Approaching Eye Level (1996, Beacon Press)
• The End of the Novel of Love (1997, Beacon Press; Nominated for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism)
• The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Men in My Life (2008, MIT Press; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism)
• Women in Science: Then and Now (2009, The Feminist Press at CUNY)
• The Ancient Dream (Sep/Oct 2010, Boston Review)
• Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life. (2011, Yale University Press; Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award)
• The Odd Woman and the City (May 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)^[7]

References

1. Library of Congress authority file (accessed 2 June 2013).
2. Tresa Grauer, entry on Vivian Gornick, Jewish Women's Archives Encyclopedia, URL=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian
3. Tresa Grauer, entry on Vivian Gornick, Jewish Women's Archives Encyclopedia, URL=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian
4. "Richard Preston | Department of English | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". english.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
5. "Visiting Writers Series | Department of English | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". english.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
6. Gornick, Vivian (1983-01-01). Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780671417383.
7. University of Iowa biography of Vivian Gornick, | URl=http://english.uiowa.edu/people/vivian-gornick

External links

• Works by or about Vivian Gornick in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Interview with Gornick in the Boston Review
• Elaine Blair (Winter 2014). "Vivian Gornick, The Art of Memoir No. 2". The Paris Review.