Allegra Goodman
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Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Early life and education
Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Hawaii.[1] The daughter of Lenn and Madeleine Goodman,[2] she was brought up as a Conservative Jew.[3] Her mother, who died in 1996, was a professor of genetics and women's studies, then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s.[4] Her father, Lenn E. Goodman,[4] is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt.
Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.[5]
Goodman graduated from Punahou School in 1985. She then went on to Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. degree. She then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University, where Goodman earned a Ph.D. degree in English literature, in 1996.[2]
Writing
Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist. Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspirations for Goodman's 2006 novel Intuition.[6]
Her short story "La Vita Nuova" was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2011 and was broadcast on Public Radio International's Selected Shorts in February 2012.[7]
Personal life
Goodman met her husband, David Karger, at Harvard. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minyan. Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Karger is a professor in computer science[8] at MIT. They have four children, three boys and a girl.[3]
Awards and honors
| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | — | Whiting Award | Fiction | Won | |
| 1998 | Kaaterskill Falls | National Book Award | Fiction | Shortlisted | |
| 2009 | Intuition | Wellcome Book Prize | — | Shortlisted | |
| 2018 | "F.A.Q.s" | Sunday Times Short Story Award | — | Shortlisted |
Bibliography
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Novels
- Kaaterskill Falls (The Dial Press 1998; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1999) Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
- Paradise Park (The Dial Press 2001, Dial Press Trade Paperback 2002) Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
- Intuition (The Dial Press 2006), Template:ISBN
- The Other Side of the Island (New York: Razorbill, 2008) Template:ISBN
- The Cookbook Collector (The Dial Press 2010) Template:ISBN
- The Chalk Artist: A Novel (The Dial Press 2017) Template:ISBN
- Sam: A Novel (The Dial Press 2023) Template:Isbn
- Isola: A Novel (The Dial Press 2025) Template:ISBN[9]
Short fiction
- Collections
- Total Immersion (Harper & Row 1989; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1998) Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
- The Family Markowitz (Farrar Straus & Giroux 1996; softcover Washington Square Press 1997) Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
- Stories[lower-alpha 1]
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References
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- ↑ Shafner, Rhonda (April 16, 2006). "'Intuition' rings true in world of science". Archived from the original, on January 30, 2010. Associated Press, via The Honolulu Advertiser. hawaii.com. Retrieved 2017-09-22.
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External links
- Allegra Goodman's webpage
- Allegra Goodman profile at Bookreporter.com
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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- Allegra Goodman entry on The Literary Encyclopedia
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- Living people
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