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Claudia Roth Pierpont

クローディア・ロス・ピアポント

Kurodia Rosu Piaponto

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Unknown
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
New York City

Career

Occupations
Journalist, Professor, Writer
Active Years
1990-2024
Affiliations
The New Yorker, New York University, Columbia University
Nominations
Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award (Passionate Minds)

Education

Barnard College
Degree: BA
Year of Graduation: 1979
Country: United States
New York University
Italian Renaissance art history
Degree: PhD
Country: United States

Awards

Whiting Award
Organization: Whiting Foundation
Result: Recipient
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization: Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: Recipient
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship
Organization: New York Public Library
Result: Recipient

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World

2000 Essays

A collection of eleven New Yorker essays juxtaposing lives and works of women writers including Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mitchell, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Women writersLiterary criticism

Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books

2013 Biography

Biography of writer Philip Roth.

BiographyAmerican literature

American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

2016 Nonfiction

Book about the Chrysler Building involving writers, musicians, movie stars.

ArchitectureAmerican culture

Bibliography

  • Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World (2000)
  • Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books (2013)
  • American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building (2016)

Legacy

American writer and journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker since 2004, known for essays and biographies.

Trivia

  • She is the mother of author Julia Pierpont.