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Patricia Marx

Patricia Marx

American humorist and writer

Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and teaches at Columbia University, Princeton University and 92nd Street Y.[1]

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Born in Abington, Pennsylvania, she earned her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker,[2] Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly. Marx is a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats, and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon.[3][4][5] She is the author of the 2007 novel, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, as well as several humor books and children's books.[6]

Bibliography

Books

Novels
  • Marx, Patricia (2007). Him her him again the end of him. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780743296243.
  • — (2011). Starting from happy. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Humor
  • Marx, Patricia & Charlotte Stuart (1983). How to regain your virginity – and 99 other recent discoveries about sex. New York: Workman. ISBN 9780894803659.
  • Marx, Patricia (1985). You can never go wrong by lying : and other solutions to the moral and social dilemmas of our time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395384657.
  • Blockbuster, (with Douglas G. McGrath), (New York: Bantam Books, 1988)
  • You Know You're a Workaholic When--, (New York: Workman, 1993)
  • 1,003 Great Things about Getting Older, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman, and David Owen), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997)
  • 1,003 Great Things about Kids, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1998)
  • 1,003 Great Things about Friends, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1999)
  • The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows about Dieting (and Won't Tell You!), (with Susan Sistrom), humor (New York: Dell, 1999)
  • 1,003 Great Things about Teachers, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000)
  • 1,003 Great Things about Moms, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
  • 1,003 Great Things about America, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
  • Birnbach, Lisa; Ann Hodgman & Patricia Marx (2004). 1,003 great things to smile about. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel.
  • —; — & — (2005). 1,003 great things about being a woman. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel. ISBN 9780740750137.
  • —; — & — (2006). 1,003 great things about being Jewish. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel. ISBN 9780740755293.
  • You Know You're 40 When--, (with Ann Hodgman), (New York: Broadway Books, 2004)
  • Marx, Patricia (2015). Let's be less stupid : an attempt to maintain my mental faculties. New York: Twelve. ISBN 9781455554959.
  • Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Celadon Books, 2019)
  • You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Celadon Books, 2020)
Children's books
  • Dot in Larryland: The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship, (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing U.S.A. Children's Books, 2009)

Essays and reporting

References

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000175267.

  1. [1]
    From the endpaper of Starting from Happy; she teaches Screenwriting.
  2. [2]
    "Contributors: Patricia Marx". The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  3. [3]
    Kipnis, Laura (2007-01-24). "Women in Love". Slate. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
  4. [4]
    Kinsley, Susan F (1971-12-10). "Lampoon Admits First Two Women". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2007-01-25.
  5. [5]
    The Starting from Happy endpaper states that she was the first woman to be elected to the Harvard Lampoon.
  6. [6]
    "MFAW-VT, Visiting Writers Profiles". Goddard College. 2006-09-19. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
  7. [7]
    Couch-surfing the globe.
  8. [8]
    Online version is titled "The world capital of plastic surgery".
  9. [9]
    Online version is titled "The joys of looking out a stranger's window".
  • Dallas Morning News Mar 22, 1999
  • "Harvard's Gifts to Gag Writing" New York Times - Mar 29, 1987
  • "Speaking the Unspeakable (No Blushing Is Required)" New York Times - Jun 6, 1998
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