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| Education | Barnard College (BA) New York University (PhD) |
Claudia Roth Pierpont is a writer and journalist. She has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004.[1] Her subjects have included Friedrich Nietzsche, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Orson Welles, the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building.
A collection of eleven of Pierpont's New Yorker essays, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World,[2] was published in 2000. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, the book juxtaposes the lives and works of women writers, including Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston.[3] Her biography of writer Philip Roth, Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2013 and has since been translated into several languages. Her book about the Chrysler Building, American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building, was published in 2016.
Pierpont has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.
Pierpont lives in New York City. She graduated from Barnard College in 1979 and holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history from New York University.[4] She has been a professor of creative journalism at New York University and Columbia University.[5]
She is the mother of author Julia Pierpont.[6]
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Bibliography
- Pierpont, Claudia Roth (2000). Passionate minds : women rewriting the world. Knopf. ISBN 9780679431060.
- — (May 23, 2016). "Full exposure". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 15. Portfolio by Diane Arbus. pp. 56–67.
- Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. (2013)
- American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building. (2016)
References
- ^ "Claudia Roth Pierpont: Contributors: The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
- ^ "Salon Books | "Passionate Minds" by Claudia Roth Pierpont". Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
- ^ "Claudia Roth Pierpont - Penguin Random House". www.randomhouse.com. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ "Writing the Family Portrait". Barnard Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ^ "Faculty - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism". Archived from the original on 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
- ^ "Book Review: 'Among the Ten Thousand Things,' by Julia Pierpont". 3 September 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
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