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Vivian Gornick

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Biographies & Memoirs, Women & Gender Studies

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Date of Birth: 1935

Vivian Gornick is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She caused a controversy when she said that she had invented parts of Fierce Attachments, her largely autobiographical work.

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Books by Vivian Gornick

Average rating: 3.75 · 880 ratings · 171 reviews · 30 distinct works

	The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative 3.75 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction) 3.74 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Approaching Eye Level 3.69 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton 3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick, Deborah Chasman (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Men in My Life 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Women in Science: Then and Now 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Romance of American Communism 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	Woman In Sexist Society; Studies In Power And Powerlessness 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	My rating: