Caryl Rivers
BornUnited States
OccupationAuthor, journalist
GenreDrama, humor, current events, politics, journalism

Caryl Rivers is an American novelist and journalist.[1] Her 1984 novel Virgins was a New York Times Best Seller and sold millions of copies around the world.[2][3] Her articles have appeared in major publications such as The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.[3][4][5][6]

Career

Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University.[3] In 1979 she and historian Howard Zinn were among a group of Boston University faculty members who defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.[7] In 2008 Rivers was awarded The Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement which is awarded to an individual for a lifetime of contribution to the journalism profession.[8]

Rivers is also the author of several other books including the 1986 sequel to Virgins, Girls Forever Brave and True,[9] Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs[10] and Camelot, a novel set during the Kennedy administration.[11]

Publications

  • Virgins
  • Girls Forever Brave and True
  • Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News
  • Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
  • Camelot

Awards

  • 2008, The Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement

References

  1. ↑ Amy Laskowski (October 14, 2008). "Journalism Was a Magic Carpet". Bu.edu. Archived from the original on March 14, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ "In Short". The New York Times. December 16, 1984.
  3. 1 2 3 "Caryl Rivers". Bu.edu.
  4. ↑ Caryl Rivers; Rosalind Chait Barnett (April 9, 2006). "The Myth of 'The Boy Crisis'". The Washington Times.
  5. ↑ Caryl Rivers (June 16, 2006). "A feminist success story". The Boston Globe.
  6. ↑ Caryl Rivers (October 1, 1997). "Millennial Woman: Make Her GI Jane, Not June Cleaver". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ↑ Ros Krasny (January 28, 2010). "Activist, historian Howard Zinn dies at 87". Reuters. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Caryl Rivers Honored with Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement". SPJ. August 6, 2008.
  9. ↑ Patricia T. O'Conner (May 10, 1987). "New & Noteworthy". The New York Times.
  10. ↑ "Same Difference". Findarticles.com.
  11. ↑ "Camelot". Publishers Weekly.
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