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Vivian Gornick

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Vivian Gornick 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 will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.

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

  • Approaching Eye Level (1996)
  • Fierce Attachments (1987)
  • Essays in Feminism (1978)
  • The Romance of American Communism (1977)
  • Women in Science: 100 Journeys into the Territory (1983)
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