Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022)
Auteur van De achterkant van de Amerikaanse droom
Over de Auteur
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, toon meer she lives near Key West, Florida. (Publisher Fact Sheets) Political activist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana on August 26, 1941. She studied physics at Reed College and graduated in 1963. She received a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Rockefeller University in 1968. Rather than pursuing a career in science, however, she decided to focus on social change. Ehrenreich has written columns and contributed articles to publications including Time Magazine, The Progressive, The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and The Nation. She taught essay writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and 2000. Ehrenreich has written many books, with 2001's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America and 2005's Bait and Switch, The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream both becoming New York Times bestsellers. Nickel and Dimed examines working-class poverty, while Bait and Switch discusses white-collar unemployment. Her next bestseller was in 2014 with Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything. In 1998 Ehrenreich was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association, and she received the Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation Prize for Creative Citizenship in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Barbara Ehrenreich
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009) 1,781 exemplaren
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (2003) — Redacteur — 483 exemplaren
Feminism interruptus 1 exemplaar
Welcome to Cancerland 1 exemplaar
Next 1 exemplaar
Ehrenrich, Barbara, archive 1 exemplaar
In Defense of Splitting Up 1 exemplaar
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Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (1995) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 92 exemplaren
Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media (2002) — Voorwoord — 90 exemplaren
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Medewerker — 86 exemplaren
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Medewerker — 62 exemplaren
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (2003) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren
People-First Economics: Making a Clean Start for Jobs, Justice, and Climate (2010) — Medewerker — 43 exemplaren
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One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers (2007) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 36 exemplaren
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Medewerker — 29 exemplaren
Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11 (2003) — Medewerker — 23 exemplaren
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
Beyond Crisis: Confronting Health Care in the United States (1994) — Voorwoord, sommige edities — 7 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1941-08-26
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2022-09-01
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Butte, Montana, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- beroerte
- Woonplaatsen
- Key West, Florida, USA
Alexandria, Virginia, USA - Opleiding
- Reed College (BA | Physics | 1963)
Rockefeller University (PhD | cell biology | 1968) - Beroepen
- writer
social critic
journalist
activist
professor - Relaties
- Ehrenreich, Ben (son)
Ehrenreich, John H. (ex-husband)
Brooks, Rosa (daughter) - Organisaties
- United Professionals
Democratic Socialists of America
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
State University of New York, Old Westbury - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Lannan Literary Fellowship (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2007)
Humanist of the Year (1998)
Erasmus Prize (2018) - Agent
- Kris Dahl (ICM)
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Feminist Press (2)
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- Besprekingen
- 540
- ISBNs
- 280
- Talen
- 18
- Favoriet
- 54