Allegra Goodman
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| Allegra Goodman | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 40–41) |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 1996-current |
| Genres | literary fiction |
Allegra Goodman, Ph. D. (b. 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, Intuition, was published in 2006. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. [1]
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[edit] Early years and family
Goodman was raised a Conservative Jew [2] in Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Punahou School in 1985. Goodman then went on to Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. and met her husband, David Karger. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minian. They then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University, where Goodman earned a Ph. D. in English literature. [3] Her mother, the late Dr. Madeline Goodman, was a genetics and women's studies professor then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990's [4]. Her father, Dr. Lenn E. Goodman, is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt. Goodman's younger sister, Dr. Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist. Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspiratons for Goodman's 2006 novel Intuition.[5]
Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Karger is a researcher in computer science at [MIT]. They have four children, three boys and a girl.2006
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Choo Choo 1975 (out of print)[6]
- Total Immersion ( Harper & Row 1989; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1998) ISBN 0-06-015998-7, ISBN 0-385-33299-8
- The Family Markowitz (Farrar Straus & Giroux 1996; softcover Washington Square Press 1997) ISBN 0-374-15321-3, ISBN 0-671-01388-2
- Kaaterskill Falls (The Dial Press 1998; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1999) ISBN 0-385-32389-1, ISBN 0-385-32390-5
- Paradise Park {The Dial Press 2001, Dial Press Trade Paperback 2002) ISBN 0-385-33416-8, ISBN 0-385-33418-4
- Intuition (The Dial Press 2006), ISBN 0-385-33612-8
[edit] Short stories
- "The Closet" 1997
