- Patricia Marx
Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer.
Born in Abingdon,
Pennsylvania , she earned herB.A. fromHarvard University in1975 . Her writing has appeared in the "The New York Times ", "The New Yorker ", "Vogue", and "The Atlantic Monthly ". Marx is a former writer for "Saturday Night Live " and "Rugrats ", and one of the first two women elected to the "Harvard Lampoon ".cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2158215?nav=tap3 |work=Slate |title=Women in Love |last=Kipnis |first=Laura |date=2007-01-24 |accessdate=2007-01-26] cite news |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=125065 |title=Lampoon Admits First Two Women
last=Kinsley |first=Susan F |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=1971-12-10 |accessdate=2007-01-25] She is the author of the 2007 novel, "Him Her Him Again The End of Him", as well as several humor books and children's books ("Meet My Staff", "Now Everybody Really Hates Me", "Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table").cite web |url=http://www.goddard.edu/academic/VisitingWriterList.html#Patricia |title=MFAW-VT, Visiting Writers Profiles |date=2006-09-19 |accessdate=2007-02-01 |publisher=Goddard College]Books
* "Him Her Him Again the End of Him", novel (New York: Scribner, 2007).
* "1,003 Great Things about Being Jewish", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2006).
* "1,003 Great Things about Being a Woman", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2005).
* "1,003 Great Things To Smile about", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2004).
* "You Know You're 40 When--", (with Ann Hodgman), humor (New York: Broadway Books, 2004).
* "1,003 Great Things about Moms", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002).
* "1,003 Great Things about America", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002).
* "1,003 Great Things about Teachers", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000).
* "1,003 Great Things about Friends", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1999).
* "The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows about Dieting (and Won't Tell You!)", (with Susan Sistrom), humor (New York: Dell, 1999).
* "1,003 Great Things about Kids", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1998).
* "1,003 Great Things about Getting Older", (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman, and David Owen), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997).
* "You Know You're a Workaholic When--", humor (New York: Workman, 1993).
* "Blockbuster", (with Douglas G. McGrath), humor (New York: Bantam Books, 1988).
* "You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time", humor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985).
* "How to Regain Your Virginity ... and 99 Other Recent Discoveries about Sex", (with Charlotte Stuart), humor (New York: Workman, 1983).References
Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000175267.
* "Dallas Morning News" Mar 22, 1999
* "Harvard's Gifts to Gag Writing" "New York Times" - Mar 29, 1987
* "Speaking the Unspeakable (No Blushing Is Required)" "New York Times" - Jun 6, 1998External links
* (review of "Her Him Again the End of Him")
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