Vivian Gornick

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Vivian Gornick
Gornick in 2018
Gornick in 2018
Born (1935-06-14) June 14, 1935 (age 88)
The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • memoirist
  • essayist
Education
SubjectCultural history, memoir

Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935)

radical feminist
critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist.

Early life and education

In 1957 Gornick received a bachelor of arts degree from City College of New York and in 1960 a master of arts degree from New York University.[3]

Career

Gornick was a reporter for the

Village Voice article, "The Next Great Moment in History Is Theirs". The end of this essay announced the formation of the group and included a contact address and phone number, raising considerable national interest from prospective members.[4]: 187 [5] Gornick has also published eleven books; the most recent, The Odd Woman and the City, was published in May, 2015.[6] She teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007–2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and in 2015 she served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.[7]

In March 2021 Gornick was awarded the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for nonfiction.[8]

Bibliography

Books

  • Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness (1971; edited with Barbara K. Moran)
  • In Search of Ali Mahmoud: an American Woman in Egypt (1973, Saturday Review Press) (Nominated for the 1974 National Book Award)
  • The Romance of American Communism (1977, Basic Books; new edition 2020, Verso)[9]
  • Essays in Feminism (1978,
    Harper & Row
    )
  • Women in Science: Portraits from a World in Transition (1983, Simon & Schuster)[10]
  • Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Approaching Eye Level (1996, Beacon Press)
  • The End of the Novel of Love (1997, Beacon Press; Nominated for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism)
  • The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • The Men in My Life (2008, MIT Press; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism)
  • Women in Science: Then and Now (2009, The Feminist Press at CUNY)
  • The Ancient Dream (Sep/Oct 2010, Boston Review)
  • Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life. (2011, Yale University Press; Finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award)
  • The Odd Woman and the City (May 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)[6]
  • Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader (2020, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)[11]
  • Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time (2021, Verso)[12]

Essays and reporting

  • "What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me" (2002) The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0060936464

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2017 Gornick, Vivian (January–February 2017). "Tied in knots: The modern marriage is an elaborate feat of performance". The New Republic. 248 (1–2): 56–58. Kristeva, Julia & Philippe Sollers. Marriage As a Fine Art. New York: Columbia University Press.

References

  1. ^ "Library of Congress authority file". loc.gov. Archived from the original on July 25, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Tresa Grauer. "Vivian Gornick". Jewish Women's Archives Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  3. ^ Elaine Blair (Winter 2014). "Vivian Gornick, The Art of Memoir No. 2". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on July 11, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-8166-1787-2
    . Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  5. ISBN 0-06-011627-7
    .)
  6. ^ a b "Vivian Gornick – biography". Department of English, The University of Iowa. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  7. ^ "Visiting Writers Series". Department of English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, The University of Iowa. July 24, 2017. Archived from the original on April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  8. ^ "Windham-Campbell Prize recipients announced". Books+Publishing. March 23, 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  9. ^ Watling, Sarah (May 1, 2020). "The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick review – a flawed masterpiece". The Guardian.
  10. ISBN 9780671417383
    .
  11. ^ "Book Marks reviews of Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick". Book Marks. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  12. ^ "Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time, by Vivian Gornick" VersoBooks.com. Retrieved 2022-03-28.

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