Claudia Roth Pierpont

Claudia Roth Pierpont has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004.^[1] Her subjects include Friedrich Nietzsche, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Orson Welles, the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building.

A collection of eleven of Pierpont’s New Yorker essays, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World,^[2] was published in 2000. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, the book juxtaposes the lives and works of women writers, including Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston.^[3]

Pierpont has been the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.

Pierpont lives in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history from New York University. She has been a professor of creative journalism at New York University and Columbia University.^[4]

References

1. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/contributors/claudia_roth_pierpont
2. ^ http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2000/03/28/pierpont/index.html
3. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=23976
4. ^ http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069757/JRN_Profile_C/1175373426322/JRNFacultyDetail.htm

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