Anne Roiphe (born December 25, 1935) is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation

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and author of the novel ''Up the Sandbox'' (1970), filmed as a starring vehicle for

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in 1972. In 1996, ''Salon'' called the book "a feminist classic."Eckoff, Sally, Salon, "Fruitful," October 11, 1996.

Background and education

Roiphe was born and raised to a Jewish family in New York City. She graduated from the

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in 1953 and received her Bachelor of Arts from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sarah Lawrence scholarship, particularly ...

in 1957. Roiphe is also a cousin of controversial attorney

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Career

Over a four-decade career, Roiphe has proven so prolific that the critic Sally Eckhoff observed "tracing Anne Roiphe's career often feels like following somebody through a revolving door: the requirements of keeping the pace can be trying." (Eckhoff described the writer as "a free-thinking welter of contradictions, a never-say-die feminist who's absolutely nuts about children"). Roiphe published ''Digging Out'', her first novel, in 1967. Her second, ''Up the Sandbox'' (1970), became a national best-seller. Roiphe has published several novels and two memoirs as well as contributed essays and reviews to ''[he New York Times'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''New York Magazine'', and others. In 1993, ''The New York Times'' described her as "a writer who has never toed a party line, feminist or otherwise." Her 1996 memoir ''Fruitful: A Memoir of Modem Motherhood'' was nominated for the National Book Award. From 1997 to 2002, she served as a columnist for ''[The New York Observer''. Her memoir ''Epilogue'' was published in 2008 and the memoir ''Art and Madness'' in 2011. ''Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind'' was published by Seven Stories Press in May 2015, and received starred reviews from ''Publishers Weekly'' and ''

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''.

Personal

Roiphe was married twice. In 1957, she married Jack Richardson; they had one daughter, Emily Carter, then divorced. In 1967, she married Dr. Herman Roiphe; they had two children together:

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and Rebecca Roiphe in addition to Herman's two daughters from a prior marriage, Margaret Roiphe and Jean Roiphe.

Books

Fiction

* ''Digging Out'' (1967) * ''Up the Sandbox'' (1970) , * ''Long Division'' (1972) , * ''Torch Song'' (1977) , * ''Lovingkindness'' (1987) , * ''If You Knew Me'' (1993) * ''The Pursuit of Happiness'' (1991) , * ''Secrets of the City'' (2003) , * ''An Imperfect Lens'' (2006) , * ''Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind'' (2015) ,

Non-fiction

* ''Generation Without Memory: A Jewish Journey Through Christian America'' (1981) , * ''Your Child's Mind: The Complete Book of Infant and Child Mental Health Care'' (co-authored with Dr. Herman Roiphe) (1985) , * ''A Season for Healing, Reflections on the Holocaust'' (1988) * ''A Mother's Eye: Motherhood and Feminism'' (1997) , * ''Married: A Fine Predicament'' (2002) , * ''Water from the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah'' (2006)

Memoirs

* ''Fruitful: A Memoir of Modern Motherhood'' (1996) , * ''1185 Park Avenue, A Memoir'' (2000) , * ''For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor: An American Read'' (2000) , * ''Epilogue: A Memoir'' (2008) , * ''Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason'' (2011) ,

References

External links

The New York Times: Anne Roiphe News

The New York Observer: Anne Roiphe

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