Allegra Goodman

Infobox Writer


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occupation = novelist
nationality = American
period = 1996-current
genre = literary fiction
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website = http://www.allegragoodman.com/

Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, "Intuition", was published in 2006. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. [http://starbulletin.com/97/08/01/features/donnelly.html]

Early years and family

Goodman was raised a Conservative Jew [http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT] in Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Punahou School in 1985. Goodman then went on to Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. degree and met her husband, David Karger. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minian. They then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University, where Goodman earned a Ph.D. degree in English literature. [http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT] Her mother, the late Madeline Goodman, was a genetics and women's studies professor then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/register/Oct7_96/vr1.html] . Her father, [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/faculty/goodman.html Lenn E. Goodman] , is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt. Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist. Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspiratons for Goodman's 2006 novel "Intuition". [http://news.hawaii.com/article/2006/Apr/16/il/FP604160319.html]
Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where [http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~karger/ Karger is a researcher in computer science] at [MIT] . They have four children, three boys and a girl. [http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT 2006]

Bibliography

Novels

* "Choo Choo" 1975 (out of print) [http://starbulletin.com/97/08/01/features/donnelly.html]
* "Total Immersion" ( Harper & Row 1989; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1998) ISBN 0-06-015998-7, ISBN 0-385-33299-8
* "The Family Markowitz" (Farrar Straus & Giroux 1996; softcover Washington Square Press 1997) ISBN 0-374-15321-3, ISBN 0-671-01388-2
* "Kaaterskill Falls" (The Dial Press 1998; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1999) ISBN 0-385-32389-1, ISBN 0-385-32390-5
* "Paradise Park" {The Dial Press 2001, Dial Press Trade Paperback 2002) ISBN 0-385-33416-8, ISBN 0-385-33418-4
* "Intuition" (The Dial Press 2006), ISBN 0-385-33612-8
* "The Other Side of the Island" (The Dial Press 2008) ISBN 0-385-34890-7

hort stories

* "The Closet" 1997

External links

* [http://www.allegragoodman.com/ Allegra Goodman's webpage]
* [http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-goodman-allegra.asp Allegra Goodman profile] at [http://www.bookreporter.com Bookreporter.com]
* [http://news.hawaii.com/article/2006/Apr/16/il/FP604160319.html 2006 Newpaper article on Allegra Goodman]
* [http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT 2006 MSNBC article on Allegra Goodman]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022301666.html 2006 Allegra Goodman] interview in the Washington Post
* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5707 Allegra Goodman] entry on [http://www.litencyc.com The Literary Encyclopedia]