Adele waldmann biography

Adelle Waldman is an American novelist, columnist and blogger.
Adelle Waldman is the author of the novels, Help Wanted, coming from W.W. Norton in March of 2024, and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., which was published.
About the author Adelle Waldman's first novel, "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.", was named one of 2013's best books by The New Yorker, The New Republic.

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When I think of contemporary writers who have convincingly taken on the youthful voice of a protagonist of the opposite sex, Jefferey Eugenides immediately comes to mind. Wally Lamb with his 90s hit She’s Come Undone also rings a strong distant bell. In recent years, Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Jonathan Franzen (Freedom), and Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story) have all dabbled, switching their POV’s between man and woman in their respective novels. But when it comes to a young woman writer assuming the perspective of a young man—an unmarried rising media hot-shot in NYC no less, which is a special breed of man all together—I think I’m unable to recall anyone, until now. Enter The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., the bold and humorous debut of Adelle Waldman. She wears the hat of her titular character Nate Piven well and she unapologetically sets her hero on a very emotional rollercoaster of a ride. For Adelle, it’s a strong look. For the rest of us, we just gotta wonder, “How does she pull it off?” We catch up with the newbie no

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Adelle Waldman

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Born

Baltimore, The United States

Website

http://www.adellewaldman.com

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Adelle Waldman is the author of the novels, Help Wanted, coming from W.W. Norton in March of 2024, and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., which was published by Henry Holt in 2013 and was named one of that year’s best books by The New Yorker, The Economist, The New Republic, NPR, Slate, Bookforum, The Guardian and others. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter.Adelle Waldman is the author of the novels, Help Wanted, coming from W.W. Norton in March of 2024, and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., which was published by Henry Holt in 2013 and was named one of that year’s best books by The New Yorker, The Economist, The New Republic, NPR, Slate, Bookforum, The Guardian and others. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter....more

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Adelle Waldman

American novelist, columnist and blogger (born 1977)

Adelle Waldman is an American novelist, columnist and blogger. Her first novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., was published in 2013.

Life and education

Waldman was born in Baltimore, Maryland,^[1] in 1977.^[2] She has one brother, Steve Randy Waldman, who blogs about finance and economics.^[3] She attended a Quaker high school.^[4]

Waldman graduated from Brown University in 1998. She later attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.^[5]

Writing

Early career

Waldman worked as a reporter at the New Haven Register, located in New Haven, Connecticut; and The Plain Dealer, located in Cleveland, Ohio, and wrote a column for the website of The Wall Street Journal. She has written book reviews and essays for Slate,^[6]The New Republic, Vogue.com,^[7] and The New York Observer, among others.^[8] When her daughter was one year old, she woke up at 2:30am in order to work from 4 to