Devorah Blachor is an American writer, journalist, humorist and essayist who was born in New York. Blachor wrote the ‘Coming to America’ parenting column for ''

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'' ''Motherlode'' and also writes for ''

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'', ''

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'', McSweeney’s, ''U.S. News & World Report'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Good Housekeeping'' and '' The Rumpus''. Her ''Motherlode'' article "Turn Your Princess-Obsessed Toddler into a Feminist in Eight Easy Steps" went viral in 2014 and was the basis for ''The Feminist's Guide to Raising a Little Princess: How to Raise a Little Girl Who's Authentic, Joyful and Fearless-Even if She Refuses to Wear Anything But a Pink Tutu''.

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wrote of ''The Feminist's Guide to Raising a Little Princess'': "Humor abounds in this semicheeky examination of the pink world of princesses and little girls." Her

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satire ''I Don't Hate Women Candidates-I Just Hated Hillary and Coincidentally I'm Starting to Hate Elizabeth Warren'' appeared in early 2019. Blachor adopted the voice of a male voter which Heidi Stevens in the ''

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'' described as "rings laugh-so-you-don’t-cry true". Raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, Blachor is married to the Welsh novelist

Matt Rees Matthew Beynon Rees is a Welsh novelist and journalist. He is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef, a Palestinian sleuth, and of historical novels and thrillers. He is the winner of a Crime Writers Ass ...

. and lives in Luxembourg.

Publishing history

* ''The Feminist's Guide to Raising a Little Princess: How to Raise a Little Girl Who's Authentic, Joyful and Fearless-Even if She Refuses to Wear Anything But a Pink Tutu'' (Penguin Tarcher, 2017, )

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Collected humor articles on McSweeney's Internet TendencyCollected posts on The New York Times ''Motherlode'' parenting blog
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