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Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France and the US. She is the daughter of former model [[Sondra Peterson]] and [[Daniel Filipacchi]], chairman of [[Hachette Filipacchi Médias]].<ref name="hoban">{{cite news|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vScAAAAAMBAJ&q=amanda+filipacchi#v=snippet&q=amanda%20filipacchi&f=false|title=Brief Lives: Skin Deep|last=Hoban|first=Phoebe|date=14 January 1993|work=[[New York Magazine]]|page=30|accessdate=27 April 2013}}</ref> She began writing fiction at age thirteen, and complete three unpublished amateur novels in her teenage years.<ref name="hoban" /> She has been living in New York since she was 17.<ref>{{cite web|title="Bio" page|url=http://www.amandafilipacchi.com/|work=amandafilipacchi.com|accessdate=29 April 2013}}</ref> She attended [[Hamilton College]], where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in [[Columbia University]]’s MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis which she later turned into her first published novel, ''[[Nude Men]]''.<ref name="ca"/> She took a class with ''[[The New Yorker]]''{{'}}s fiction and poetry editor, Alice Quinn, on whose recommendation she signed with literary agent [[Melanie Jackson]].
Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France and the US. She is the daughter of former model [[Sondra Peterson]] and [[Daniel Filipacchi]], chairman of [[Hachette Filipacchi Médias]].<ref name="hoban">{{cite news|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vScAAAAAMBAJ&q=amanda+filipacchi#v=snippet&q=amanda%20filipacchi&f=false|title=Brief Lives: Skin Deep|last=Hoban|first=Phoebe|date=14 January 1993|work=[[New York Magazine]]|page=30|accessdate=27 April 2013}}</ref> She began writing fiction at age thirteen, and complete three unpublished amateur novels in her teenage years.<ref name="hoban" /> She has been living in New York since she was 17.<ref>{{cite web|title="Bio" page|url=http://www.amandafilipacchi.com/|work=amandafilipacchi.com|accessdate=29 April 2013}}</ref> She attended [[Hamilton College]], where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in [[Columbia University]]’s MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis which she later turned into her first published novel, ''[[Nude Men]]''.<ref name="ca"/> She took a class with ''[[The New Yorker]]''{{'}}s fiction and poetry editor, Alice Quinn, on whose recommendation she signed with literary agent [[Melanie Jackson]].


==Work==
==Career==
In 1992, when Filipacchi was twenty-four years old and before her graduation, Jackson sold ''[[Nude Men]]'' to Nan Graham at [[Viking Press]]. The novel was translated widely<ref>Including German, French, Slovak, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Swedish, and Russian. {{cite web|title=Records in Index Translationum database|url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a|work=Index Translationum|publisher=UNESCO|accessdate=28 April 2013}}</ref> and was anthologized in ''The Best American Humor 1994'' (published by Simon & Schuster 1994).<ref>{{cite book|page=10|title=Best American Humor 1994|last=Waldoks|first=Moshe|year=1994|publisher=Touchstone|isbn=0-671-89940-6}}</ref>
In 1992, when Filipacchi was twenty-four years old and before her graduation, Jackson sold ''[[Nude Men]]'' to Nan Graham at [[Viking Press]]. The novel was translated widely<ref>Including German, French, Slovak, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Swedish, and Russian. {{cite web|title=Records in Index Translationum database|url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a|work=Index Translationum|publisher=UNESCO|accessdate=28 April 2013}}</ref> and was anthologized in ''The Best American Humor 1994'' (published by Simon & Schuster 1994).<ref>{{cite book|page=10|title=Best American Humor 1994|last=Waldoks|first=Moshe|year=1994|publisher=Touchstone|isbn=0-671-89940-6}}</ref>


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Reviewers have called Filipacchi "a prodigious postfeminist talent",<ref>{{cite news|title=Vapor|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7867-0617-4|accessdate=29 April 2013|newspaper=Publishers Weekly|date=March 29, 1999|format=unsigned review|quote=Her novel showcases a prodigious postfeminist talent.}}</ref> and a "lovely comic surrealist".<!-- her website says this review comes from the New York Times Book Review, but it really needs a specific citation; searching their online archives found nothing --> ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' described her writing style as "reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark ... brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous."<ref>{{Cite news | title = Exploring the slippery nature of desire | work = Boston Globe | accessdate = 2013-04-28 | date = 2005-06-12 | url = http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/12/exploring_the_slippery_nature_of_desire/?page=full }}</ref> ''[[Love Creeps]]'' (full of "oddball situations and merrily acidic dialogue"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-31/books/page-burners/|title=Page-Burners|date=31 May 2005|work=[[The Village Voice]]|accessdate=30 April 2013}}</ref>) was one of ''[[The Village Voice]]'''s top 25 books of the year.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Top Shelf 2005 | work = The Village Voice | accessdate = April 28, 2013 | date = December 6, 2005 | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-12-06/books/top-shelf-2005/full/ }}</ref>
Reviewers have called Filipacchi "a prodigious postfeminist talent",<ref>{{cite news|title=Vapor|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7867-0617-4|accessdate=29 April 2013|newspaper=Publishers Weekly|date=March 29, 1999|format=unsigned review|quote=Her novel showcases a prodigious postfeminist talent.}}</ref> and a "lovely comic surrealist".<!-- her website says this review comes from the New York Times Book Review, but it really needs a specific citation; searching their online archives found nothing --> ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' described her writing style as "reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark ... brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous."<ref>{{Cite news | title = Exploring the slippery nature of desire | work = Boston Globe | accessdate = 2013-04-28 | date = 2005-06-12 | url = http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/12/exploring_the_slippery_nature_of_desire/?page=full }}</ref> ''[[Love Creeps]]'' (full of "oddball situations and merrily acidic dialogue"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-31/books/page-burners/|title=Page-Burners|date=31 May 2005|work=[[The Village Voice]]|accessdate=30 April 2013}}</ref>) was one of ''[[The Village Voice]]'''s top 25 books of the year.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Top Shelf 2005 | work = The Village Voice | accessdate = April 28, 2013 | date = December 6, 2005 | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-12-06/books/top-shelf-2005/full/ }}</ref>


==Wikipedia op-ed==
===Wikipedia op-ed===
{{main|Wikipedia_controversies#2013}}
{{main|Wikipedia_controversies#2013}}
In an April 2013 op-ed for the ''[[New York Times]]'', Filipacchi made allegations of sexism regarding [[Wikipedia]]'s classification of American novelists after she noticed editors moving female writers out of the general category of American novelists and into a subcategory for American female novelists. She stated this was a type of "small, easily fixable thing ... that make[s] it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world."<ref>{{Cite news | issn = 0362-4331 | last = Filipacchi | first = Amanda | title = Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists | work = The New York Times | accessdate = 2013-04-28 | date = 2013-04-24 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html }}</ref> The op-ed spurred outcry from feminists and other commentators, who echoed her concerns about sexism and the alleged minimization of female novelists on the site.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|title=Wikipedia in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists'|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikipedia-in-sexism-row-after-labelling-harper-lee-and-others-women-novelists-while-men-are-american-novelists-8590632.html|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=26 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Zandt|first=Deanna|title=Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=[[Forbes]]|date=26 April 2013}}</ref> Filipacchi subsequently accused editors in a follow-up ''New York Times'' piece of targeting the Wikipedia page about her in retaliation for her criticism.<ref>{{cite news|last=Filipacchi|first=Amanda|title=Wikipedia’s Sexism|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism.html?_r=0|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=27 April 2013}}</ref> Her accusations were later supported by Andrew Leonard of ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]'' who described the reaction as "revenge editing" and supported it by quoting hostilities aimed at Filipacchi by a specific Wikipedia user.<ref>{{cite web|last=Leonard|first=Andrew|title=Wikipedia’s shame|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/wikipedias_shame|accessdate=30 April 2013|website=[[Salon.com]]|date=30 April 2013}}</ref>
In an April 2013 op-ed for the ''[[New York Times]]'', Filipacchi made allegations of sexism regarding [[Wikipedia]]'s classification of American novelists after she noticed editors moving female writers out of the general category of American novelists and into a subcategory for American female novelists. She stated this was a type of "small, easily fixable thing ... that make[s] it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world."<ref>{{Cite news | issn = 0362-4331 | last = Filipacchi | first = Amanda | title = Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists | work = The New York Times | accessdate = 2013-04-28 | date = 2013-04-24 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html }}</ref> The op-ed spurred outcry from feminists and other commentators, who echoed her concerns about sexism and the alleged minimization of female novelists on the site.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|title=Wikipedia in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists'|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikipedia-in-sexism-row-after-labelling-harper-lee-and-others-women-novelists-while-men-are-american-novelists-8590632.html|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=26 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Zandt|first=Deanna|title=Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=[[Forbes]]|date=26 April 2013}}</ref> Filipacchi subsequently accused editors in a follow-up ''New York Times'' piece of targeting the Wikipedia page about her in retaliation for her criticism.<ref>{{cite news|last=Filipacchi|first=Amanda|title=Wikipedia’s Sexism|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism.html?_r=0|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=27 April 2013}}</ref> Her accusations were later supported by Andrew Leonard of ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]'' who described the reaction as "revenge editing" and supported it by quoting hostilities aimed at Filipacchi by a specific Wikipedia user.<ref>{{cite web|last=Leonard|first=Andrew|title=Wikipedia’s shame|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/wikipedias_shame|accessdate=30 April 2013|website=[[Salon.com]]|date=30 April 2013}}</ref>

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Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi
Born (1967-10-10) October 10, 1967 (age 57)[1]
Paris, France
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican, French
Period1993–present
GenreLiterary fiction
Literary movementPostmodern
Website
http://www.AmandaFilipacchi.com

Amanda Filipacchi (born October 10, 1967, pronounced Fili-'pah-kee) is an American writer, born in Paris and educated in both France and the US. She is the author of three novels, Nude Men (1993), Vapor (1999), and Love Creeps (2005), which have been translated widely, and she has been praised for her comic talent.[2]

Early life and education

Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France and the US. She is the daughter of former model Sondra Peterson and Daniel Filipacchi, chairman of Hachette Filipacchi Médias.[3] She began writing fiction at age thirteen, and complete three unpublished amateur novels in her teenage years.[3] She has been living in New York since she was 17.[4] She attended Hamilton College, where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in Columbia University’s MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis which she later turned into her first published novel, Nude Men.[1] She took a class with The New Yorker's fiction and poetry editor, Alice Quinn, on whose recommendation she signed with literary agent Melanie Jackson.

Career

In 1992, when Filipacchi was twenty-four years old and before her graduation, Jackson sold Nude Men to Nan Graham at Viking Press. The novel was translated widely[5] and was anthologized in The Best American Humor 1994 (published by Simon & Schuster 1994).[6]

Filipacchi’s second and third novels, Vapor (1999) and Love Creeps (2005, a novel about obsessive love[7] and stalking[8]), were also translated into multiple languages.[9]

Reviewers have called Filipacchi "a prodigious postfeminist talent",[10] and a "lovely comic surrealist". The Boston Globe described her writing style as "reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark ... brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous."[11] Love Creeps (full of "oddball situations and merrily acidic dialogue"[12]) was one of The Village Voice's top 25 books of the year.[13]

Wikipedia op-ed

Main article: Wikipedia_controversies § 2013

In an April 2013 op-ed for the New York Times, Filipacchi made allegations of sexism regarding Wikipedia's classification of American novelists after she noticed editors moving female writers out of the general category of American novelists and into a subcategory for American female novelists. She stated this was a type of "small, easily fixable thing ... that make[s] it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world."[14] The op-ed spurred outcry from feminists and other commentators, who echoed her concerns about sexism and the alleged minimization of female novelists on the site.[15][16] Filipacchi subsequently accused editors in a follow-up New York Times piece of targeting the Wikipedia page about her in retaliation for her criticism.[17] Her accusations were later supported by Andrew Leonard of Salon who described the reaction as "revenge editing" and supported it by quoting hostilities aimed at Filipacchi by a specific Wikipedia user.[18]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b "Amanda Filipacchi." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Biography In Context. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  2. ^ Sicha, Choire (18 April 2004). "Plum's Tarts". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  3. ^ a b Hoban, Phoebe (14 January 1993). "Brief Lives: Skin Deep". New York Magazine. p. 30. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  4. ^ ""Bio" page". amandafilipacchi.com. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  5. ^ Including German, French, Slovak, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Swedish, and Russian. "Records in Index Translationum database". Index Translationum. UNESCO. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  6. ^ Waldoks, Moshe (1994). Best American Humor 1994. Touchstone. p. 10. ISBN 0-671-89940-6.
  7. ^ Dupont, Pepita (4 July 2006). "Amanda Filipacchi: Deux Variations sur la Meme T'Aime". Paris Match (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  8. ^ "New & Recommended". Boston Globe. 19 June 2005. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  9. ^ Love Creeps has been translated into French, Polish, and Dutch. Vapor was published in French, Italian, and Polish. "Records in Index Translationum database". Index Translationum. UNESCO. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  10. ^ "Vapor" (unsigned review). Publishers Weekly. March 29, 1999. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Her novel showcases a prodigious postfeminist talent.
  11. ^ "Exploring the slippery nature of desire". Boston Globe. 2005-06-12. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  12. ^ "Page-Burners". The Village Voice. 31 May 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  13. ^ "Top Shelf 2005". The Village Voice. December 6, 2005. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  14. ^ Filipacchi, Amanda (2013-04-24). "Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  15. ^ Rawlinson, Kevin (26 April 2013). "Wikipedia in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists'". The Independent. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  16. ^ Zandt, Deanna (26 April 2013). "Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You". Forbes. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  17. ^ Filipacchi, Amanda (27 April 2013). "Wikipedia's Sexism". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  18. ^ Leonard, Andrew (30 April 2013). "Wikipedia's shame". Salon.com. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
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