Naomi Wolf
| Naomi Wolf | |
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Wolf at the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City in September 2008
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| Born |
November 12, 1962 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, activist |
| Alma mater |
Yale University New College, Oxford |
| Notable works |
The Beauty Myth The End of America |
| Spouse | David Shipley (1993–2005), divorced |
| Children | 2 |
Naomi R. Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author, journalist and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
Wolf first came to prominence in 1991 as the author of The Beauty Myth. With the book, she became a leading spokeswoman of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement. Such leading feminists as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised the book; others, like Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers, criticized it. She has since written other books, including the bestselling book The End of America in 2007 and her latest Vagina: A New Biography.
Her journalism career began in 1995 and has included topics such as abortion, the Occupy Wall Street movement, Edward Snowden and ISIS. She has written in venues such as The Nation, The Guardian and The Huffington Post. Writers in Salon.com, National Review, Alternet, Mother Jones and The Atlantic have for some time criticized her journalism as conspiratorial and overblown.
Wolf was born in San Francisco, to a Jewish family. Her mother is Deborah Goleman, an anthropologist and the author of The Lesbian Community. Her father is the Romanian-born gothic horror scholar and Yiddish translator Leonard Wolf. She attended Lowell High School and debated in regional speech tournaments as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. Wolf then attended Yale University, where in 1984, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English literature. From 1985 to 1987, she was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford.
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