Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin Flanagan

Caitlin Flanagan is an American writer and social critic. She is a former staff writer for "The New Yorker" and a contributing editor and book reviewer at "The Atlantic Monthly". Her book "To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife" was published by Little, Brown in April 2006 (ISBN 0316736872).

Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Flanagan holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia.

Flanagan is a breast cancer survivor. [ [http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=510 Feminist Law Professors » Blog Archive » Caitlin Flanagan on “Why the Democratic Party is losing the housewife vote” ] ] She was included in MSN's list of "13 Women Who Makes Us Cringe". [ [http://lifestyle.msn.com/mindbodyandsoul/womenintheworld/staticslideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=3367340&imageindex=11 The Bigger Picture - Your Life - MSN Lifestyle ] ]

Before she found success as a writer, she was an English teacher and college counselor at the elite, private Harvard-Westlake school in North Hollywood, California. [ [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/flanagan Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/caitlin_flanagan Biography] at "The Atlantic Online"
* [http://www.literarymama.com/profiles/archives/001103.html Interview] by Jen Lawrence at LiteraryMama.com
* [http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=61880 Flanagan on the Colbert Report]


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