Patricia Marx

Patricia Marx ( born 1975 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer and humorist.

Patricia Marx received her BA degree from Harvard University. She wrote articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly. She was also a writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats. As the first woman she worked for the Harvard Lampoon.

Marx is the author of several novels, also in collaboration with Jane Read Martin and Roz Chast: For her first novel, Him Her Him Again The End of Him ( 2007) she was nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Her second novel, Back on Happiness ( American: Starting from Happy) appeared in 2012 in the Insel Verlag.

She also writes for The New Yorker and teaches screenwriting at Princeton University. Your genre are humorous books and children's books.

Publications

• Him Her Him Again the End of Him. Novel. Scribner, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-7862-9583-8.
• Dot in Larry country. The Big Little Book of an Odd - Sized Friendship.. Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, New York, 2009 ( illustrator Roz Chast ).
• Starting from Happy. Simon & Schuster, New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-4391-0128-5. ( From the author illustrates ). German: Back on luck. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-35868-8. ( Insel-Taschenbücher. 4168 ). ( Translator: Regina Rawlinson ).