Allegra Goodman

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Allegra Goodman
Born1967 (age 56–57)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (AB)
Stanford University (PhD)
Period1989-current
GenreLiterary fiction
SpouseDavid Karger
Children4
Website
allegragoodman.com

Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Early life and education

Allegra Goodman was born in

University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s.[4] Her father, Lenn E. Goodman,[4] is a professor of philosophy
at Vanderbilt.

Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.[5]

Goodman graduated from Punahou School in 1985. She then went on to Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. degree. She then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University, where Goodman earned a Ph.D. degree in English literature, in 1996.[2]

Writing

Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist. Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspirations for Goodman's 2006 novel Intuition.[6]

Her short story "La Vita Nuova" was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2011 and was broadcast on Public Radio International's Selected Shorts in February 2012.[7]

Personal life

Goodman met her husband,

MIT. They have four children, three boys and a girl.[3]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Stories[a]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
A challenge you have overcome 2021 Goodman, Allegra (January 25, 2021). "A challenge you have overcome". The New Yorker. 96 (45): 54–59.

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Notes
  1. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.

References

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  2. ^ a b "Allegra Goodman." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2017-09-22.
  3. ^ a b [1][dead link]
  4. ^ a b "Dean Goodman remembered for leadership, spirit". Vanderbilt Register. October 7–13, 1996. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2005-02-26. Retrieved 2006-06-13.
  5. ^ Donnelly, David. "Novel tale of island prodigy". Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
  6. ^ Shafner, Rhonda (April 16, 2006). "'Intuition' rings true in world of science". Archived from the original, on January 30, 2010. Associated Press, via The Honolulu Advertiser. hawaii.com. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
  7. ^ "News". Allegra Goodman's website. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
  8. ^ "David R. Karger". MIT CSAIL Directory.

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