Caryl Rivers
Caryl Rivers (born December 19, 1937 ) is an American writer and journalist .
Her novel "Virgin", published in 1984, was a New York Times bestseller , in Germany it was translated by Monika Curths under the title Jungfrau - no, thank you! published in several editions. Rivers articles have appeared in, for example, The Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post , Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times .
Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University . In 1979, she and historian Howard Zinn were part of a group of Boston University faculty who were threatened with firing when they defended the right to strike for clergymen at the university and refused to picket. In 2008, Rivers was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists , the oldest American journalists' association, with "The Helen Thomas for Lifetime Achievement" for her life's work.
Publications (selection)
- Virgo - no thanks! Ullstein Verlag Frankfurt 1990 ISBN 978-3-548-22277-6
- Girls like us . Ullstein Verlag Frankfurt 1990 ISBN 978-3-548-22322-3
- Girls forever brave and true . Futura 1988 ISBN 978-0-708-83641-5
- Selling anxiety: how the news media scare women University Press of New England Hanover 2008 ISBN 9781584657378
- with Rosalind Barnett , Grace K Baruch: Beyond sugar and spice . Putnam New York ISBN 9780399121647
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amy Laskowski: Journalism Was a Magic Carpet . In: Boston University . October 14, 2008.
- ↑ In short . In: The New York Times . December 16, 1984.
- ↑ Caryl Rivers: The Myth of 'The Boy Crisis' . In: The Washington Times . April 9, 2006.
- ^ Caryl Rivers: A feminist success story . In: The Boston Globe . June 16, 2006.
- ↑ Caryl Rivers: Millennial Woman: Make Her GI Jane, Not June Cleaver . In: The Los Angeles Times . October 1, 1997.
- ^ Caryl Rivers . In: Boston University .
- ↑ Ros Krasny: Activist, historian Howard Zinn dies at 87 . In: Reuters . January 28, 2010. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- ^ Caryl Rivers Honored with Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement . In: Society of Professional Journalists . August 6, 2008.
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| SURNAME | Rivers, Caryl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer, journalist and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1937 |