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Born | Wendy K. Martin 1965or1966(age 57–58) [1] Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
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Language | English |
Alma mater | University of Michigan Yale University |
Period | 1995–present |
Genre | memoir, social commentary, cultural criticism, biography |
Notable works | Primates of Park Avenue Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel and Act the Way We Do |
Spouse | Joel Moser |
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Wendy "Wednesday" Martin [2] [3] [4] is an American author and cultural critic [2] who writes and comments on parenting, step-parenting, female sexuality, motherhood, and popular culture. [5] [6] She has written several books and for The New York Times , The Atlantic , Psychology Today , The Huffington Post , Harper's Bazaar , [7] and The Daily Telegraph .
Martin was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan [8] and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [9] She did her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan where she studied anthropology, [8] [10] and she received a doctorate in comparative literature and cultural studies from Yale University. Her doctoral work examined early psychoanalysis and anthropology. [11] [12]
Martin has taught literature and cultural studies at Yale, The New School, and Baruch College. [13] [14]
In May 2009, Martin's memoir about her experience as a stepmother called Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel and Act the Way We Do was published. [15] [16]
After Martin moved to the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan with her family in 2004, she began researching and documenting her experiences there for her next book, Primates of Park Avenue. [16] [17] Simon & Schuster released the book in June 2015. [18] [19] The memoir recounted Martin's experience living among the wealthy women, particularly stay-at-home mothers, of the Upper East Side and examined their behavior from a social researcher's perspective, inspired by the work of Jane Goodall. [13] [16] [20] Primates has been translated into nine languages, as of 2018 [update] . [21]
In her book Untrue (2018), Martin focused on female sexuality and addressing untruths about women and sex. [22]
Martin has also written for Psychology Today , [23] The Daily Telegraph , [24] The New York Times , [25] The Huffington Post , [26] and The Atlantic . [27]
Martin is the author of the following books and ebooks:
In May 2013, several articles were published about the practice of hiring disabled guides to avoid lines at Disney World, which Martin uncovered during her research for Primates of Park Avenue. [28] On May 16, 2015, The New York Times published an essay by Martin in the Sunday Review section, titled "Poor Little Rich Women", prior to the publication of her book Primates of Park Avenue. [25] The article received coverage from numerous media outlets, [29] in particular the concept of financial rewards called "wife bonuses", which Martin reported some Upper East Side wives receive from their husbands for superior domestic performance. [19] [30] The New York Times characterized Martin's description of wife bonuses as "disputed". [31]
In 2015, the New York Post claimed to have found multiple factual discrepancies with Martin's memoir Primates of Park Avenue. In response, Simon & Schuster promised to add a note by Martin to subsequent editions of the book, clarifying that some chronologies and details were changed. [32]
Martin is married to Joel Moser, a lawyer, financier, chief executive officer, and adjunct professor at Columbia University, with whom she has two sons, one born in 2001 and the other in 2007. [33] [34] [35] [36] She has two step-daughters, children of Moser's first marriage. [15]
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She grew up as Wendy Martin...
The author "Wednesday" Martin (her real name is Wendy, but I guess she liked the Addams Family)...
Martin's New York Times Sunday Review piece, "Poor Little Rich Women," was one of the paper's twenty most-read pieces of the year
Among the most glaring errors: Martin's first son was born in 2001 and her second was born in 2007, the year she moved from the Upper East Side to the Upper West Side. Martin talks about raising two boys on the UES throughout the book. She writes that she attended exercise classes at Physique 57 to lose her baby weight after her second son's birth. The Post claims that gym did not exist when she claims to have exercised there.