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Konner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jennifer Konner (born 1971), American screenwriter *Joan Konner (1931–2018), American academic and journalist *Lawrence Konner, American screenwriter *Melvin Konner (born 1946), American anthropologist See also *Conor Conor is a male given name of Irish origin. The meaning of the name is "Lover of Wolves" or "Lover of Hounds". '' Conchobhar/Conchubhar'' or from the name ''Conaire'', found in Irish legend as the name of the high king Conaire Mór and other hero ...

Jennifer Konner
Jennifer A. Konner (born May 15, 1971) is an American television writer, producer and director. She is best known as co-showrunner and writer with Lena Dunham of the HBO series ''Girls.'' In 2016, she directed the season finale of the fifth season of ''Girls'' entitled "I Love You Baby" and in 2017, she directed the episode "Latching," which served as the series finale; both episodes were co-written by Judd Apatow, Dunham and Konner. With Lena Dunham, she ran a production company and is co-founder of the feminist newsletter, ''Lenny Letter,'' and its Random House imprint, Lenny Books. Early life Konner was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. She is daughter of American television writers Lawrence Konner and Ronnie Wenker-Konner (née Wenker). Konner has a younger brother, Jeremy Konner, who directs and produces the Comedy Central program Drunk History. Konner graduated from Crossroads School, a progressive high school in Sant ...
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Joan Konner
Joan Konner (born Joan Barbara Weiner; February 24, 1931 – April 18, 2018), was an American academic and journalist who served as Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Konner received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.S. from Columbia University before becoming a journalist with the ''Bergen Record''. She produced over 50 documentaries and television series, including the PBS series ''The Power of Myth'', and ''She Says/Women in News'', which won a 2002 Emmy Award. In September 1988, she became the first female Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, a position she held for eight years. From 1988-99 she was the publisher of the ''Columbia Journalism Review''. Death Joan Konner died on April 18, 2018 in Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original ...
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Lawrence Konner
Lawrence Konner is an American screenwriter, producer and film director. Konner has written over twenty-five feature films, including ''Mona Lisa Smile'', ''Planet of the Apes'', ''The Legend of Billie Jean'', ''The Jewel of the Nile'', and '' Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''. Konner’s writing for television spans over forty-five years. His works include the HBO series ''The Sopranos'', for which Konner earned an Emmy nomination in 2001, and '' Boardwalk Empire'', for which he received the WGA Award for Best New Series in 2010. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his work as writer and executive producer on the 2016 miniseries ''Roots''. Other television credits include ''Family'' and ''Little House on the Prairie''. In 1995, Konner produced and directed a documentary short, ''One Thing I Know'', which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Special Jury Prize at the USA Film Festival. In 2003, through his indepe ...
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Melvin Konner
__NOTOC__ Melvin Joel Konner (born 1946) is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He also has a PhD from Harvard University (1973) and a MD from Harvard Medical School (1985). From 1985 on, he contributed substantially to developing the concept of a Paleolithic diet and its impact on health, publishing along with Stanley Boyd Eaton, and later also with his wife Marjorie Shostak and with Loren Cordain. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, Konner has stated that he lost his faith at age 17. Selected bibliography *Konner, Melvin J. (2019) ''Believers: Faith in Human Nature''. W. W. Norton & Company. *Konner, Melvin J. (2015) ''Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy''. W. W. Norton & Company. *Konner, Melvin J. ...
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