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 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, MIT Press) [National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism]
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001, FSG)
- "The End of the Novel of Love (1997)
- Approaching Eye Level (1996)
- Fierce Attachments (1987) [memior]
- Women in Science: 100 Journeys into the Territory (1983)
- Essays in Feminism (1978)
- The Romance of American Communism (1977)
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