Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer ( born May 28, 1959 in Long Iceland, New York ) is an American author.

Life

Meg Wolitzer is the daughter of the author Hilma Wolitzer. She studied creative writing at Smith College and at Brown University, graduating in 1981. She is married to the author Richard Panek and has two sons. She lives in New York City.

Wolitzer began writing during their studies and published her first novel in 1982.

She taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and at Skidmore College. Two of her books have been made ​​into a film. Wolitzer 2012 summed up in an essay for the Sunday New York Times Book Review the status of female writing.

Works (selection)

  • The interestings (2013 )
  • The Uncoupling (2011)
  • The position ( 2005)
  • The Wife (2003)
  • Surrender, Dorothy. 1998 Sara's friends. Novel. From the Amerikan. Charlotte Breuer. Limes, Munich 1999
  • Stuck. Novel. Dt. by Elke link. Goldmann, Munich 1996

Reviews

  • Liesl Schillinger: The interestings (Review), New York Times, April 19, 2013
Financial Times WorldCat
561793
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