Liza Mundy
Liza Mundy (born July 8, 1960 ) is an American journalist and non-fiction author.
Life
Liza Mundy has an AB from Princeton University and an MA in English Literature from the University of Virginia . She lives in Arlington , Virginia with her husband and two children .
She worked as a journalist for the Washington Post , where she began writing features on family topics. She received various awards for this. Mundy writes for the American quality press such as The Atlantic , TIME , The New Republic , Slate , Mother Jones , New York Times and British publications such as Spectator and The Guardian .
In her book The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family , published in 2012, she documented the growing number of women who earn a family livelihood. The book was nominated among the non-fiction books of the year. Her biography of Michelle Obama , published in 2008, became a bestseller and has been translated into sixteen languages. In 2008 she received the Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers for her popular science book Everything Conceivable on the effects of the development of reproductive medicine .
Mundy appears frequently on American radio and television. She has also presented her books in Japan, Denmark, France, Australia and Brazil.
Mundy leads the private social science project New America's Work and Family Program, which explores social change in family life and in the world of work.
Fonts (selection)
- The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012
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Michelle . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008
- Michelle Obama . From the English by Norbert Juraschitz and Michael Bayer. Cologne: Torchbearers 2009
- Everything Conceivable . New York: Button, 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Liza Mundy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Liza Mundy in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Liza Mundy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Liza Mundy ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Vita at New America Foundation
- ^ Liza Mundy: Sad days in the empty nests , International New York Times , September 20, 2014, p. 9
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mundy, Liza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1960 |