Joan Gould

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Joan Gould Kleinbard (born February 27, 1927 in New York City ) is an American journalist and writer .

Life

Joan Gould's father was a lawyer. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1947 with a BA. She married in 1950 and has two sons and a daughter. Joan Gould lives in Rye , Westchester County , New York .

Publications

As a journalist, she wrote Hers' regular column in the New York Times . She has also written for Esquire , Life , Sports Illustrated and McCall’s magazines .

Her novel Otherborn was published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan in 1980. It is about a young brother and sister who, after a shipwreck in the South Seas, discovers a people of human-like beings on an island that have developed differently from the rest of humanity. A German translation (translator: Edda Petri ) was published in 1995 under the title Old born in Heyne Verlag . Her book Spirals , which was published in December 1988, brings together autobiographical columns on the role of women as daughters, wives, mothers, mother-in-law, widow and grandmother. It became a selection volume for the Book of the Month Club. Spinning Straw into Gold , published in 2004, deals with the influence of fairy tales on the formation of self-image and the development of women.

Works

  • Otherborn . Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York City 1980, ISBN 0-698-20497-2 .
  • Spirals: A Woman's Journey Through Family Life . Random House, New York City 1988, ISBN 0-394-55705-0 .
  • Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life . Random House, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-394-58532-1 .

Reviews

Spirals
  • Susan A. McBride of the Learning Research Center at Northeast Texas Community College, Mount Pleasant, Texas writes: Readers who liked Lynn Caines Widow (1974) will love Spirals , too .
  • Michele Orwin writes about Spirals in the Los Angeles Times : What remains is the feeling of respect for Gould as a courageous traveler and competent guide.
  • The Kirus Reviews write about Spirals : These honest considerations about their different roles, ... are often touching and present complex, sometimes stormy relationships in coordinated detail.
Spinning Straw into Gold
  • Elizabeth Berg describes Spinning Straw into Gold as brilliant .
  • Nancy Friday writes: Just open Joan Gould's wonderful book anywhere and you will find something familiar, as relevant today as it was in your childhood .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joan Gould in the Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series ( Memento from June 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Biography in the introduction to the essay Binding Decisions
  3. ↑ Review of books by Bryn Mawr Alumni ( memento January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the Bryn Mawr College website
  4. ↑ Review of Spirals in the Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1988 (English)
  5. ↑ Review of Spirals on Kirkus Reviews (English)
personal data
SURNAME Gould, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gould Kleinbard, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City