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Vivian Gornick (1935– )[1] 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
"[Y]ou cannot teach people how to write--the gift of dramatic expressiveness, of a natural sense of structure, of making language sink down beneath the surface of description, all that is inborn, cannot be taught--but you can teach people how to read, how to develop judgment about a piece of writing: their own as well as that of others." From The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)
"Penetrating the familiar is by no means a given. On the contrary, it is hard, hard work." From The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)
"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." "The Daily Illini," 25 April 1981
Partial bibliography
- ``Women in Science: Then and Now (2009, The Feminist Press at CUNY)
- The Men in My Life (2008, MIT Press) [National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism]
- The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2005, FSG)
- The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001, FSG)
- The End of the Novel of Love (1997, Beacon Press)
- Approaching Eye Level (1996)
- Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987, FSG)
- Women in Science: 100 Journeys into the Territory (1983)
- Essays in Feminism (1978)
- The Romance of American Communism (1977)
- The Ancient Dream " (Sep/Oct 2010, Boston Review)
- In Search of Ali Mahmoud: an American Woman in Egypt (1973, Saturday Review Press)
References
- ^ Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
External links
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