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Jennifer Senior is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and has been an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times since September 2018. Previously, she was a columnist and a book critic at the New York Times, and a staff writer for New York magazine.

In 2022, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing [1] and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, both for the article "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind," published in The Atlantic in September 2021. [2]

She is the author of the 2014 New York Times best-selling book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood. [3] [4] [5] [6] She graduated from Princeton University, majoring in anthropology, in 1991. [7]

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." [8]

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References

  1. "Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic". www.pulitzer.org. Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  2. Senior, Jennifer. "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind". No. September 2021. The Atlantic. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  3. Solomon, Andrew (January 31, 2014). "Under Pressure". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 5, 2023 via NYTimes.com.
  4. Gallagher, Aileen (February 3, 2014). "Is Parenting Really All Joy and No Fun? A Happily Childless Reviewer Investigates Jennifer Senior's Book". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  5. Bellack, Marisa (2014-02-06). "Book Review: 'All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood' by Jennifer Senior". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
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  7. "Tiger of the Week: Author Jennifer Senior '91". 21 January 2016. Archived from the original on 2023-02-15. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  8. Senior, Jennifer (February 14, 2023). "What Not to Ask Me About My Long COVID". The Atlantic . Archived from the original on February 15, 2023. Retrieved February 15, 2023.