Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman | |
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| Born | 21 May 1969 Los Angeles, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Writer |
| Notable work | The Submission |
| Website | amywaldman |
Amy Waldman (born May 21, 1969) is an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with the New York Times for a total of eight years. For three years she was co-chief of the South Asia bureau. Before that she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11.[1]
Her first novel, The Submission, was published in 2011. According to a review of the book in The Guardian, the novel tackles the fallout from 9/11 attacks.[2] The novel was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2011. It lost out narrowly to Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies.[3]
Waldman was also a national correspondent with The Atlantic,[1] has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and won a Berlin Prize in 2010 from the American Academy in Berlin.[4]
The Submission
Amy Waldman's first novel, The Submission, was published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and received mostly positive reviews. The plot revolves around events after the 9/11 attacks when a Muslim architect wins a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial.[5]
Some of the awards and honors received include:[6]
- Entertainment Weekly’s Favorite Novel of 2011
- Esquire’s 2011 Book of the Year
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
- A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011
- One of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011
- Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011
External links
- Freedom by Amy Waldman
- Article on Islam by Amy Waldman in The Atlantic
- Articles by Amy Waldman in the New York Times
References
- ^ a b (www.era404.com), era404 Creative Group, Inc. "The Submission, by Amy Waldman". Retrieved 6 August 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Skidelsky, William (11 September 2011). "The Submission by Amy Waldman – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ Flood, Alison (1 December 2011). "Biography of cancer wins Guardian First Book award". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "Berlin Prize Fellow, Class of Spring 2010". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on February 27, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
- ^ (www.era404.com), era404 Creative Group, Inc. "The Submission, by Amy Waldman". Retrieved 6 August 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ results, search (16 August 2011). "The Submission: A Novel". Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Retrieved 6 August 2018 – via Amazon.
- Living people
- American women journalists
- 1969 births
- American Book Award winners
- Berlin Prize recipients
- MacDowell Colony fellows
- The New York Times writers
- American women novelists
- The Atlantic (magazine) people
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American journalists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- Writers from Los Angeles
- Journalists from California
- Novelists from California