Hanna Rosin
Hanna Rosin is an American journalist.
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[edit] Personal life
Rosin was born in Israel and grew up in Queens where her dad is a taxi driver.[1] She graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1987, where she won a number of competitions on the debate team.[2] She attended Stanford University, and is married to Slate editor David Plotz; they live in Washington, D.C. with their three children.[3]
[edit] Career
Hanna Rosin is a co-founder of DoubleX, a women's site connected to the online magazine Slate. She is also a writer for The Atlantic. She has written for the Washington Post, The New Yorker, GQ and New York after beginning her career as a staff writer for The New Republic. Rosin has also appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.. A character portrayed by actress Chloë Sevigny in the movie Shattered Glass about Rosin's colleague at The New Republic, Stephen Glass, was loosely based on Rosin.[4][5]
Rosin is writing a book based on her 2010 Atlantic story, "The End of Men." She gave a TED talk on the subject in 2010. In the past she has specialized in writing about religious-political issues, in particular the influence of evangelical Christians on the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign.[6] She is the author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (ISBN 978-0-15-101262-6), published in September 2007. Based on a New Yorker story, the book follows several young Christians at Patrick Henry College, a new evangelical institution that teaches its students to "shape the culture and take back the nation." Rosin's portrayals of the students are part of a larger attempt to chronicle the cultural and political history of the modern Christian right.[7]
In 2009, she published a controversial article in The Atlantic with the provocative title "The Case Against Breast-Feeding," questioning whether current social pressures in favor of breastfeeding were appropriate, and whether the science in support of the practice was conclusive.[8] In 2009 she was nominated for a National Magazine Award for "Boy's Life," a story about a young transgendered boy. In 2010 she won the award for her contribution to a package of stories in New York magazine about circumcision. Her stories have also been included in anthologies of Best American Magazine Writing 2009 and Best American Crime Reporting 2009.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Double X Profile: Hanna Rosin". http://www.doublex.com/content/hanna-rosin. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
- ^ "Stuyvesant Policy Debate Alumni". http://www.drownout.com/debate/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "About David Plotz". The Genius Factory.net. http://www.thegeniusfactory.net/bio.php. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ "Hanna Rosin, Washington Post staff writer, to discuss "religious right" on the campaign trail". Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2007-06-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20070610011112/http://www.wws.princeton.edu/events/pressreleases/20051110rosin.html. Retrieved 2007-09-12. "Chloë Sevigny later portrayed her in "Shattered Glass" the movie about her New Republic colleague, Stephen Glass."
- ^ Howard Kurtz (2002-10-07). "Stephen Glass: The True Story". Washington Post. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2002_Oct_7/ai_93978132. Retrieved 2007-09-12. "A female New Republic staffer played by Chloë Sevigny, though based loosely on Hanna Rosin (now also at The Post), is a composite."[dead link]
- ^ Julia Osellame (2005-11-05). "Right wing on rise, says writer". Daily Princetonian. http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/11/11/news/13760.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ Nina Easton (2007-09-09). "Political Fundamentals". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Easton-t.html?ref=books. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ Hanna Rosin (2009 April). "The Case Against Breast-Feeding". The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/case-against-breastfeeding. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
[edit] Further reading
- McDermott, Nancy (20 April 2009). "‘Militant lactivism’: question it at your peril". Spiked. http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6549/. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
