American writer
Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
Early life and education
Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn , New York , and raised in Hawaii .[1] The daughter of Lenn and Madeleine Goodman,[2] she was brought up as a Conservative Jew .[3] Her mother, who died in 1996, was a professor of genetics and women's studies , then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s.[4] Her father, Lenn E. Goodman ,[4] is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt.
Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.[5]
Goodman graduated from Punahou School in 1985. She then went on to Harvard University , where she earned an A.B. degree. She then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University , where Goodman earned a Ph.D. degree in English literature, in 1996.[2]
Writing
Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist . Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspirations for Goodman's 2006 novel Intuition .[6]
Her short story "La Vita Nuova" was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2011 and was broadcast on Public Radio International 's Selected Shorts in February 2012.[7]
Personal life
Goodman met her husband, David Karger , at Harvard. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minyan . Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Karger is a professor in computer science[8] at MIT . They have four children, three boys and a girl.[3]
Awards and honors
Bibliography
Novels
Short fiction
Collections
Stories[a]
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Notes
A challenge you have overcome
2021
Goodman, Allegra (January 25, 2021). "A challenge you have overcome" . The New Yorker . 96 (45): 54–59.
Goodman, Allegra (March 4, 1991). "Onionskin" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (January 5, 1992). "The Wedding of Henry Markowitz" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (November 8, 1992). "Fantasy Rose" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (August 1, 1993). "Mosquitoes" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (January 9, 1994). "Sarah" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (July 6, 1997). "The Closet" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (June 13, 1999). "The Local Production of Cinderella" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (July 3, 2005). "Long-Distance Client" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (April 26, 2010). "La Vita Nuova" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (June 30, 2014). "Apple Cake" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (September 4, 2017). "F.A.Q.s" . The New Yorker .
Goodman, Allegra (February 20, 2023). "The Last Grownup" . The New Yorker .
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Notes
^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
References
^ Fried, Lewis (2007). "Allegra Goodman". In Berenbaum, Michael ; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica . Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 756. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4 .
^ a b "Allegra Goodman." Contemporary Authors Online . Detroit: Gale, 2011. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2017-09-22.
^ a b [1] [dead link ]
^ a b "Dean Goodman remembered for leadership, spirit" . Vanderbilt Register . October 7–13, 1996. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2005-02-26. Retrieved 2006-06-13 .
^ Donnelly, David. "Novel tale of island prodigy" . Honolulu Star-Bulletin .
^ Shafner, Rhonda (April 16, 2006). "'Intuition' rings true in world of science ". Archived from the original , on January 30, 2010. Associated Press, via The Honolulu Advertiser . hawaii.com. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
^ "News" . Allegra Goodman's website. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2013-03-16 .
^ "David R. Karger" . MIT CSAIL Directory.
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