Claudia Roth Pierpont

Claudia Roth Pierpont is an American journalist.

Life

Claudia Roth Pierpont studied art history at Barnard College and New York University, where she graduated in 1978 and in 1988 received his doctorate. Since 1990, she wrote freelance regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine since 2004 it belongs to the staff of the magazine. In 2000, she published a collection of eleven essays in the volume Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World, among other things, about Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mitchell, and Zora Neale Hurston. The book was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Pierpont writes in the trade journals also about ballet and dance. The end of 2013 she published a biography of Philip Roth, with whom she is not related and they met for the first time in 2002.

Pierpont received the " Whiting Writers' Award," 1999, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and a fellowship at the " Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public." She is a lecturer in journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives in New York City.

Writings (selection )

• Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
• Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World. New York: Knopf, 2000
• Giovanni da Nola and the monument of Pedro de Toledo: a study in Neapolitan sixteenth century sculpture. Dissertation New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1988
• Movement in the art of Masaccio. MA thesis, New York University Graduate School, 1978