Patricia Marx

Patricia Marx (* 1975 in Abington , Pennsylvania ) is an American writer and humorist.

Patricia Marx received her BA from Harvard University . She has written articles for The New York Times , The New Yorker , Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly . She was also a copywriter for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats . She was the first woman to work for the Harvard Lampoon .

Marx is the author of several novels, also in collaboration with Jane Read Martin and Roz Chast : For her first novel Him Her Him Again The End of Him (2007) she was nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor .

Her second novel Zurück auf Glück (American: Starting from Happy ) was published by Insel Verlag in 2012.

She also writes for The New Yorker and teaches screenwriting at Princeton University . Her genre are humorous books and children's books.

Publications

Him Her Him Again the End of Him . Novel. Scribner, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-7862-9583-8 .
Dot in Larryland. The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship. Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, New York 2009. (Illustrator: Roz Chast).
Starting from Happy . Simon & Schuster, New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-4391-0128-5 . (Illustrated by the author).
- German: Back to happiness . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-35868-8 . ( Island paperbacks. 4168). (Translator: Regina Rawlinson).

personal data
SURNAME	Marx, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American writer and humorist
DATE OF BIRTH	1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Abington , Pennsylvania