Anne Roiphe


Anne Roiphe is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox, which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. In 1996, Salon called the book "a feminist classic."

Background and education

Roiphe was born and raised to a Jewish family in New York City. She graduated from the Brearley School in 1953, and received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1957. Roiphe is also a cousin of controversial attorney, Roy Cohn

Career

Over a four-decade career, Roiphe has proven so prolific that the critic Sally Eckhoff observed, "tracing Anne Roiphe's career often feels like following somebody through a revolving door: the requirements of keeping the pace can be trying.". Roiphe published her first novel, Digging Out, in 1967. Her second, Up The Sandbox, became a national best-seller and made the author's career.
Roiphe has since published seven novels and two memoirs, while contributing essays and reviews to The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and others. In 1993, The New York Times described her as "a writer who has never toed a party line, feminist or otherwise." Her 1996 memoir Fruitful: A memoir of Modem Motherhood was nominated for the National Book Award.
From 1997 to 2002, she served as a columnist for The New York Observer. Her memoir Epilogue was published in 2008, and another memoir, Art and Madness, in 2011. Her most recent book, Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind, was published by Seven Stories Press in May 2015, and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist.

Personal

Roiphe was married twice. In 1957, she married Jack Richardson; they had one daughter, Emily Carter, before divorcing. In 1967, she married Dr. Herman Roiphe; they had two children together: Katie Roiphe and Rebecca Roiphe in addition to Herman's two daughters from a prior marriage, Margaret Roiphe and Jean Roiphe.

Books

Fiction