Jennifer Senior is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at ''

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'' and has been an Op-Ed columnist for the ''

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'' since September 2018. Previously, she was a columnist and a book critic at the ''New York Times,'' and a staff writer for ''

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''. In 2022, she won a

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

for Feature Writing and a

National Magazine Award The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...

for Feature Writing, both for the article "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind," published in ''The Atlantic'' in September 2021. The essay was reprinted in book form in 2023. She is the author of the 2014 ''New York Times'' best-selling book ''All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood''. She graduated from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, majoring in anthropology, in 1991. She has written about her experience suffering from Long COVID: "Long COVID symptoms often change. This syndrome is wily, protean—imagine a mischief of mice moving through the walls of your house and laying waste to different bits of circuitry and infrastructure as they go."

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