Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, which was made into a major motion picture, and Fly Away Home. A graduate of Princeton University, Jennifer lives in Philadelphia with her... Read full bio
Author Revealed:
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. "Don't pick it." My Mom told me that, and it applies to any number of situations.
Q. What is your motto or maxim?A. "Don't pick it." My Mom told me that, and it applies to any number of situations.Q. What do you regret most?A. Meeting one of my literary heroes -- one of the men whose work made me think that I could become a writer, too. He turned out to be a horrible sexist who claimed to never read books by women. I'm still getting over that one.Q. What is your greatest achievement?A. I think I'm supposed to say something about my children or my books here, but honestly, any morning that I wake up and find that I've successfully charged the various electronic devices that I'll need, that's a good day.Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?A. Linda Voss, from Susan Isaac's SHINING THROUGH, a secretary-turned-spy who saves the world and gets the guy.Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?A. Cape Cod, on a perfect sunny July afternoon, paddling my kayak through the salt marsh with my daughters, looking for clams.Learn more about Jennifer Weiner
...nuance. With an endearingly flawed narrator in a conflicted relationship, this is chick-lit territory that many talented writers Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Wells among them have explored far more deftly. What makes Diary of a Mad Fat Girl so fascinating...
...nuance. With an endearingly flawed narrator in a conflicted relationship, this is chick-lit territory that many talented writers Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Wells among them have explored far more deftly. What makes Diary of a Mad Fat Girl so fascinating...
...Roxane Gay recently pointed out in Salon that all our discussions about whether women writers like best selling Jennifer Weiner don't get enough press coverage miss a major point. Writers are easily dissatisfied, no matter what they've achieved. As Gay...
...place on the cover of Time magazine but also the invention of the term ‘Franzenfreude’, coined by author Jennifer Weiner to describe “taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen”. Fans include Barack Obama,...
...place on the cover of Time magazine but also the invention of the term ‘Franzenfreude’, coined by author Jennifer Weiner to describe “taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen”. Fans include Barack Obama,...
...place on the cover of Time magazine but also the invention of the term Franzenfreude, coined by author Jennifer Weiner to describe taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen. Fans include Barack Obama, who was so...
...Male and female authors in America are competing over who has it harder, with bestselling chick lit author Jennifer Weiner arguing the New York Times still pays more attention to male writers, and first-time novelist Teddy Wayne countering that most male...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, November 1, 2011
...get you through everyday pain -- and isn't it the everyday pain that often breaks our hearts? Jennifer Weiner's Good In Bed explores the aftermath of a young woman reading her ex's description of her in a national magazine, a dramatization of how so many...
...Recalculating: A Short StoryBy Jennifer WeinerTommy had been dead for six months when Maureen found the box he’d left for her in the attic.She’d gone up there to retrieve the Halloween decorations, the glow-in-the-dark eyeballs and fake spiders that...
...or two very best-selling female novelists that had been outspoken on the subject. (And his memory was correct. Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult were much quoted.) Mr. Eugenides continued that given the number of books they sold, he really didn’t know...
...Ties and Lullabies by Jane Graves. (4.5 out of 5)Cosmo's Sexiest Stories by Jane Green, Jennifer Weiner and Meg Cabot. (1.5 out of 5)Something So Right by Elyse Mady. (4 out of 5)Don't Mess with Texas by Christie Craig. (4 out of...
...Today marks my 2011 Halloween Kick-Off. I'll be hosting several Guest Crime Writers on Frightful Fridays this month--authors who set a mystery or two during Halloween or have a particularly fun Halloween or scary story to impart! Boo!Mystery Readers...
...No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency fame tweets about books, dreams, and even hats. @jenniferweiner : Popular chick lit author Jennifer Weiner regularly shares her novels, love of The Bachelor , and truly funny tweets. @TheAuthorGuy : Whether you’re...
...Rowena's review of Cosmo's Sexiest Stories Ever by Jane Green, Jennifer Weiner and Meg Cabot.The world’s best-selling magazine for young women asked three best-selling authors to each write a story steamy enough for the pages of Cosmo—a tall order...