Jump to content

Vivian Gornick: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
add ref to the first of the hundreds of reliable sources easily found in less time than it takes to right a deletion rationale
SmackBot (talk | contribs)
m Date maintenance tags and general fixes
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Refimprove|date=March 2009}}
{{refimprove}}
'''Vivian Gornick''' (ca. 1935- ) is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the ''[[Village Voice]]''. She currently teaches writing at [[The New School]]. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at [[Harvard University]]. She caused a controversy when she said that she had invented parts of ''[[Fierce Attachments]],'' her largely autobiographical work.
'''Vivian Gornick''' (ca. 1935- ) is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the ''[[Village Voice]]''. She currently teaches writing at [[The New School]]. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at [[Harvard University]]. She caused a controversy when she said that she had invented parts of ''[[Fierce Attachments]],'' her largely autobiographical work.


Line 21: Line 21:
* [http://bostonreview.net/BRwebonly/gornick.php Interview with Gornick] in the ''[[Boston Review]]''
* [http://bostonreview.net/BRwebonly/gornick.php Interview with Gornick] in the ''[[Boston Review]]''


{{US-nonfiction-writer-stub}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gornick, Vivian}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gornick, Vivian}}
[[Category:1930s births]]
[[Category:1930s births]]
Line 28: Line 27:
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]


{{US-nonfiction-writer-stub}}

Revision as of 21:19, 18 March 2009

Vivian Gornick (ca. 1935- ) is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She caused a controversy when she said that she had invented parts of Fierce Attachments, her largely autobiographical work.

Quotes

"Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that." -- Vivian Gornick, "The Daily Illini," April 25, 1981

Partial Bibliography

  • The Men in My Life (2008, ISBN 978-0-262-07303-5)[1]
  • "The End of the Novel of Love (1997)
  • Approaching Eye Level (1996)
  • Fierce Attachments (1987)
  • Women in Science: 100 Journeys into the Territory (1983)
  • Essays in Feminism (1978)
  • The Romance of American Communism (1977)

References

  1. ^ "'The Men in My Life' by Vivian Gornick". Los Angeles Times. October 5, 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-18.