Judith Thurman (born 1946)
Thurman is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Early life
In 1967, Thurman graduated from Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree.
Early work
Thurman began her literary career as a poet and translator. The Covent Garden Press in London published her first book of poems,
Putting My Coat On, in 1972.
In the 1970s, Atheneum Books published I Became Alone, a book of essays on women poets for young people,
In 1973, Thurman returned to New York after five years in Europe and began to contribute to the newly launched Ms. magazine.
Writing career
Biographies
In the mid-1970s, Thurman began writing a biography on
Isak Dinesen after being convinced by a representative from St. Martin's Press. During her eight year writing process, Thurman stopped writing her biography after experiencing writer's block and
anxiety. After resuming her writing, Thurman's biography,
Isak Dinesen: The Life of A Storyteller, was published by St. Martin's Press in 1982.
It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, in 1983,
and served as the basis for
Sydney Pollack's 1985 film
Out of Africa, on which Thurman served as an Associate Producer.
Thurman took leave to write a biography titled Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, which was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1999.Judith Thurman (1999). 039458872X, Knopf. 039458872X
The New Yorker
In 1987, Thurman began contributing to
The New Yorker.
In 2000, she returned to
The New Yorker as a staff writer, where she specialized in cultural criticism for over 20 years. A collection of her essays for the magazine,
Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007,
and was a
New York Times Best Book of the Year. Swann Song was published in The Best American Essays of 2003.
Other remarkable The New Yorker
Thurman is a recipient of the Harold G. Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters;
Prizes
Won
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The National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1983
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The Salon Book Award for Biography, 1999
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Los Angeles Times Book awards for Biography, 1999
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The Harold G. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Prose Style
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Bard College's Mary McCarthy Prize for a Woman Writer's Life Work
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The Rungstedlund Prize from the Royal Danish Academy
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Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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The 2022 PEN Diamonsntein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Finalist
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Pulitzer Prize, 1999
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National Book Award, 1999
Bibliography
Poetry
Biographies
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (1983)
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (1999)
Essay collections
Essays and reporting
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Swann Song, 2002
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The Roving Eye, 2008
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[Online version is titled "Philip Roth e-mails on Trump".]
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[Online version is titled "The desires of Margaret Fuller"; first published in the April 1, 2013 issue.]
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[Online version is titled "Reading Dante's Purgatory while the world hangs in the balance".]
Reviews
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The New York Review, Writing the Furies.
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The New York Times, Fluent in the Language of Style
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The New York Times, Lost Women
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London Review of books, Yes You, Sweetheart
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The New York Times, So Saucy, in Her Life and Her Work
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The New York Times, A Tale of Destiny
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The New York Review, The Eight Gothic Tale
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