Anna North

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Anna North
Born Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.
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Anna North is an American writer, editor, and reporter who is currently a senior reporter at Vox specializing in covering gender-related issues. [1]

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Life

Anna North grew up in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. [2] [3]

Before entering writing as a full-time profession, she critiqued films in California for a small newspaper. [4] She graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. [3]

Career

She was a regular contributor and member of the editorial board at The New York Times from 2014 to 2017, and headed the segment "This Week In Hate." [5] [6] [7]

She has written or edited for publications including Jezebel , [8] Buzzfeed , [9] and Salon . [10]

Her fiction and nonfiction work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle , Glimmer Train , and The Atlantic. [2] She authored two fiction books, America Pacifica (2011), [11] and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark (2015), which won a Lambda Literary Award. [1] [12] [13]

She wrote about Donald Trump during his presidential campaign when she was an editor at The New York Times, regarding what she alleged was his "desire to be liked at all costs." [14]

Her 2020 novel, Outlawed , was described by NPR commentator Maureen Corrigan as " The Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ." Using tropes of the western, the novel weaves a tale of an alternative United States during a flu epidemic in 1894. The central character, the "outlaw" Ada, and her gang explore shifting roles of gender, and challenge the belief that childless women are freaks or witches. [15] [16] [17]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Anna North Profile and Activity - Vox". www.vox.com. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  2. 1 2 "Anna North | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  3. 1 2 Wayne, Teddy (2011-06-15). "Interview With Anna North, Author of America Pacifica". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  4. ↑ ""Brilliant and dangerous": Anna North's fictional Sophie Stark uses and discards people to..." Salon. 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  5. ↑ "Anna North". The New York Times. 2017-08-23. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  6. ↑ Fassler, Joe. "Writing Is the Process of Abandoning the Familiar". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  7. ↑ "Barbershop: Trump's Tweets, How Hate Groups Are Defined And Jay-Z's New Album". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  8. ↑ North, Anna. "The Jezebel (Very) Short Fiction Contest". Jezebel. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  9. ↑ "Anna North". BuzzFeed. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  10. ↑ "Anna North" . Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  11. ↑ "America Pacifica by Anna North - review". The Guardian . 2011-09-23. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10.
  12. ↑ "Shaping Her Own Mythos: An Interview with Anna North". the unexpected shape. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  13. ↑ "Writers' Workshop 2016 literary honors | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  14. ↑ Scarry, Eddie. "New York Times editor: Trump's speech showed has an 'obsession' with 'adulation'". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  15. ↑ Corrigan, Maureen (6 January 2021). "'Outlawed' Frontiers Of Gender And Sexuality Beckon In This Sly Western". National Public Radio. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  16. ↑ "Outlawed". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  17. ↑ Pedulla, Amy (31 December 2020). "Gender roles upends a classic genre in Anna North's 'Outlawed'". Boston Globe. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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