Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American writer, born on Long Island, New York. She is the daughter of novelist Hilma Wolitzer.

She studied creative writing at Smith College and graduated from Brown University in 1981. She wrote her first novel, Sleepwalking, a story of three college girls obsessed with poetry and death, while still an undergradate; it was published in 1982.^[1] Her following books include Hidden Pictures (1986), This Is Your Life (1988), Friends for Life (1994), Surrender, Dorothy (1998), The Wife (2003), The Position (2005), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), and The Uncoupling (2011). Her short story "Tea at the House" was featured in 1998's Best American Short Stories collection.

She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and Skidmore College and has written several Hollywood screenplays, most of which are unproduced. Two films have been based on her work; This Is My Life, scripted and directed by Nora Ephron, and the 2006 TV movie Surrender, Dorothy, starring Diane Keaton and directed by Charles McDougall.

The Uncoupling was the subject of the first coast-to-coast virtual book club discussion, via Skype.^[2]

She lives in New York with her husband Richard Panek, also a writer, and two sons.

Reviews

• "Here are three words that land with a thunk: gender, writing and identity. Yet in The Wife, Meg Wolitzer has fashioned a light-stepping, streamlined novel from just these dolorous, bitter-sounding themes. Maybe that's because she's set them all smoldering: rage might be the signature emotion of the powerless, but in Wolitzer's hands, rage is also very funny."^[3]
• "Meg Wolitzer, the bestselling author of the The Ten-Year Nap..."^[2]
• "At this point in her career, Meg Wolitzer deserves to be a household name. Every few years she turns out a sparkling novel that manages to bring the shine back to big, tarnished issues of gender politics, such as women's pull between work and family, or the role of sexuality in family dynamics."^[4]

References

1. ^ "Writing About Women Who Are Soccer Moms Without Soccer". New York Times. March 25, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/books/25wolitzer.html?pagewanted=1&ref=megwolitzer. Retrieved September 4, 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "New chapter begins for book clubs as author takes discussion online". Edmonton Journal. September 4, 2011. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/chapter+begins+book+clubs+author+takes+discussion+online/5351989/story.html. Retrieved September 4, 2011. 
3. ^ Claire Dederer (April 20, 2003). "http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/books/in-the-shadow-of-the-big-boys.html?ref=megwolitzer". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/books/in-the-shadow-of-the-big-boys.html?ref=megwolitzer. Retrieved September 4, 2011. 
4. ^ Heller McAlpin (April 10, 2011). "The Uncoupling (Review)". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/08/RVLB1IIHT5.DTL. Retrieved September 4, 2011. 

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Name	Wolitzer, Meg
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Short description	Novelist, short story writer
Date of birth	May 28, 1959
Place of birth	Long Island, New York, United States
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