 Credit: Nina Subin | | 4,410 (6,628) | 256 | 4,887 |  (3.53) | 6 | 0 | Allegra Goodman lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided) Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn New York in 1967, but grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii. She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1989 and a PhD in English literature from Stanford University in 1997. Her first story, Variant Text, was accepted by Commentary magazine in 1985. While at Harvard University, she continued to publish short stories in Commentary and her first book, a collection of stories, was published the day she graduated. She wrote her second book, The Family Markowitz, while at Stanford University. Her other works include Intuition, Kaaterskill Falls, Paradise Park, and The Other Side of the Island. She teaches a writing workshop in the graduate program in Creative Writing at Boston University. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Cookbook Collector … (more) |
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Allegra Goodman has 6 past events. (show)  Reading: Three Authors  Fiction Book Club Tuesday, November 20, 7:00 p.m. The cookbook collector by Allegra GoodmanNational Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays. Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Book Discussion Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector. Mix drama, love, romance, and complex characters together and you get The Cookbook Collector. A story about two sisters who are complete opposites leads us to think about the ways we live our lives. (DPLFictionRoom) Event location: Patty Turner Center Book Discussion Allegra Goodman discusses The Cookbook Collector. The author of the novels "Kaaterskill Falls" and, more recently, "The Cookbook Collector" discusses her work as part of the Jewish Literature Live Seminar. Information: 202-994-7470. (SqueakyChu) Event location: George Washington University, Marvin Center Amphitheater, 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC, USA Allegra Goodman read and signs The Cookbook Collector Allegra Goodman reads from The Cookbook Collector. Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman will read from and sign her eagerly anticipated new novel The Cookbook Collector, in which she weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. (misericordia)… (more) Allegra Goodman, The Other Side of the Island Allegra Goodman , The Other Side of the Island. "A chilling vision of the future, written with imagination and flare...exotic and surreal."Alan Lightman author of Einstein's Dreams "Goodman has written a bracing, exhilarating novel that manages to be both subversive and optimistic."Washington Post
Allegra Goodman is the author of
Intuition,
Paradise Park,
Kaaterskill Falls,
The Family Markowitz, and
Total Immersion. The Other Side of the Island is her first book for younger readers. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares, Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, and The American Scholar. Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass. (booksense)… (more)
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