Claudia Roth Pierpont is an American writer and journalist. She has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004.[1] Her subjects have included Friedrich Nietzsche, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Orson Welles, the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building.

Claudia Roth Pierpont
Pierpont in New York City, 2013
Pierpont in New York City, 2013
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • professor
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationBarnard College (BA)
New York University (PhD)

A collection of eleven of Pierpont's New Yorker essays, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World,[2] was published in 2000. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, the book juxtaposes the lives and works of women writers, including Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston.[3] Her biography of writer Philip Roth, Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2013 and has since been translated into several languages. Her book about the Chrysler Building, American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building, was published in 2016.

Pierpont has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.

Pierpont lives in New York City. She graduated from Barnard College in 1979 and holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history from New York University.[4] She has been a professor of creative journalism at New York University and Columbia University.[5]

She is the mother of author Julia Pierpont.[6]

Bibliography

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  • Pierpont, Claudia Roth (2000). Passionate minds : women rewriting the world. Knopf. ISBN 9780679431060.
  • — (May 23, 2016). "Full exposure". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 15. Portfolio by Diane Arbus. pp. 56–67.
  • Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. (2013)
  • American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building. (2016)

References

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  1. ^ "Claudia Roth Pierpont: Contributors: The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
  2. ^ "Salon Books | "Passionate Minds" by Claudia Roth Pierpont". Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
  3. ^ "Claudia Roth Pierpont - Penguin Random House". www.randomhouse.com. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Writing the Family Portrait". Barnard Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  5. ^ "Faculty - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism". Archived from the original on 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  6. ^ "Book Review: 'Among the Ten Thousand Things,' by Julia Pierpont". 3 September 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
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