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Vivian Gornick

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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 will be 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)
  • "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)