Jami Attenberg | |
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 Attenberg at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1971 (age 51–52) |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Era | 21st-century |
| Notable work | The Middlesteins Saint Mazie All Grown Up |
| Website | jamiattenberg |
Jami Attenberg (born 1971) is an American fiction writer and essayist. She is the author of a short story collection, six novels, including the best-seller The Middlesteins (2012), and a memoir, I Came All ThisWay to Meet You (2022).
Attenberg was born in 1971 in Arlington Heights, Illinois. [1] The daughter of a travelling salesman, she grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, [2] [3] and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. [4]
Attenberg worked at HBO (2000 to 2003) [1] before deciding to devote herself to fiction writing, initially supported by temp jobs. [5] Attenberg has also worked at WORD bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a job she took after giving several readings at the store. [6]
In 2006, Attenberg published a collection of short stories with Random/Shaye Areheart under the title Instant Love. [7] Two novels followed: The Kept Man (Riverhead, 2008) [8] [9] and The Melting Season (2010). [10] [11]
Following a change in publisher and accompanying marketing strategy (with subsequent works promoted not as women's fiction but instead as literary fiction, including a blurb from Jonathan Franzen on her third book), [5] Attenberg experienced a literary breakthrough in 2012 with her third novel The Middlesteins, [12] [13] [14] [15] which became a New York Times bestseller [16] and was listed among the ten best-selling books on Amazon in 2012. [17] The book describes "a suburban Jewish family, and how it reacts to the disaster unfolding in its midst," Julie Orringer wrote in a New York Times review, with different chapters narrated from different characters' point of view. [18] The Middlesteins was translated into multiple languages and Attenberg was nominated for multiple literature awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize [19] and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. [20]
In 2015, Attenberg published her fifth book, Saint Mazie (Hachette). [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] Saint Mazie is a historical novel based on Mazie Gordon-Phillips, who lived in New York in the Jazz Age; the novel is written as her fictional diary discovered by a documentary filmmaker researching her life. [26] Buzzfeed listed Saint Mazie as one of the 27 "Most Exciting Books of 2015." [27]
Attenberg's next novel, All Grown Up, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US in March 2017, [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] and in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Holland in 2017–2018. All Grown Up tells the story of 39-year-old Andrea Bern, who is single and living in New York as her family cares for her terminally ill niece in New Hampshire. In The New York Times, Helen Schulman notes that like TheMiddlesteins, All Grown Up "is in part about choosing to save yourself even if that means letting down someone who really needs you." [33]
In October 2019, she published All This Could Be Yours. [34] [35] [36] It was selected as a "Publishers Weekly Pick" with a starred review. [37]
Attenberg's essays have been published in The New York Times , [38] The Wall Street Journal , [39] Vogue, [40] Elle [41] and Lenny Letter. [42] In January 2022, she published a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You; [43] in a review in The New York Times, Claire Dederer said the book reflected Attenberg's "gifts as a novelist: a fierce impulse toward honesty, a companionably cranky voice and an interest in the complicated, bobbing and weaving ways in which people navigate their desires." [44]
Attenberg lives in New Orleans, LA. [45]
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