Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014.
Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments--ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times -- The Odd Woman and the City , and Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader , as well as the classic text on writing, The Situation and the Story ..
Growing up in the Bronx among communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary critic.
Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014
