Elizabeth Weil

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Elizabeth Weil
OccupationNovelist, journalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Yale University
Notable works The Girl Who Smiled Beads
Spouse Daniel Duane
Website
www.elizabethweil.me

Elizabeth Weil is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. Weil wrote for the New York Times for nearly 20 years, during which she also wrote freelance for a number of other magazines. She has also written two nonfiction books and co-authored two nonfiction books. Her journalism has received many accolades, including a New York Press Club Award and a GLAAD Award. Her biography The Girl Who Smiled Beads has received such accolades as the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction. From March 2020 until December 2021, Weil wrote for ProPublica . She is now a features writer for New York Magazine . [1] Weil teaches part-time at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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Personal life

Weil graduated from Yale University. At present, she lives in San Francisco, California with her husband (Daniel Duane), with whom she shares two daughters. [2] Their daughter Hannah Duane is also a writer who has been published in HuffPost [3] [4] and is a graduate of Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. [5]

Career

Magazines

Weil worked at the New York Times for nearly 20 years and currently writes for ProPublica . She has also published work in Matter, [6] The Atlantic, [7] Outside, [8] [9] [10] The California Sunday Magazine, [11] Wired, [12] Medium , [13] Men's Journal , [14] Vogue , [15] [16] Mother Jones, [17] Pacific Standard , [18] [19] The New Republic, [20] and others.

She has received a number of accolades:

Weil's work has also been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing, Best American Food Writing, and America's Next Generation of Great Women Journalists.

Books

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, written with Clemantine Wamariya, was published April 24, 2018 by Crown.

The book received the following accolades:

No Cheating, No Dying

No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried To Make It Better. was published February 7, 2012 by Scribner.

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship was initially published in 2002, then republished on October 6, 2010, by Randomhouse Publishing Group.

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  3. ↑ "How Cutting My Hair Short Helped Me Own My Power As A Teenage Girl". HuffPost. 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  4. ↑ Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (27 March 2018). "My work daughter (that's a work wife's child designation, right, @lizweil?) Hannah Duane wrote this great story about her haircut. I am not always concerned about the next gen". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  5. ↑ "class notes". issuu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
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  7. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2019-04-08). "Kamala Harris Takes Her Shot". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  8. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2017-11-21). "Mikaela Shiffrin Does Not Have Time for a Beer". Outside Online. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  9. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2014-01-14). "The American Stars of Ski Jumping". Outside Online. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  10. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2011-12-12). "Heavy Mettle". Outside Online. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
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  12. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (March 2, 2017). "The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Wreaks Havoc and Ruins Lives". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  13. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2015-03-11). "What Really Happened to Baby Johan?". Medium. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  14. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2016-11-02). "Is Bill Clinton Our New Model Husband?". Men's Journal. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  15. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2011-01-04). "Feeding Frenzy". Vogue. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  16. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2014-11-28). "Karlie Kloss Visits Sweden's Treehotel". Vogue. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  17. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth. "Breeder Reaction". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  18. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (14 June 2017). "Want to Swim Faster? Terry Laughlin Says Relax". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  19. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (14 June 2017). "Robert Lustig and the War on Obesity". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  20. ↑ Weil, Elizabeth (2013-09-03). "American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids. Here's How". The New Republic. ISSN   0028-6583 . Retrieved 2021-09-08.
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  29. ↑ Cowles, Gregory (May 24, 2018). "8 New Books We Recommend This Week". New York Times. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  30. ↑ "50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018". Washington Post. November 13, 2018.
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