Claire Dederer
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| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Writer, essayist, critic |
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| Known for | Essays, book reviews, memoirs |
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| Notable work | Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma |
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| SpouseTemplate:Pluralize from text | Bruce Barcott (married 1997–2023) Peter Ames Carlin (married 2025–present)Template:Pluralize from text |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Relatives | Dave Dederer (brother) |
| Awards | Longform essay of the year (2017)
2024 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature |
| Website | clairedederer |
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Template:Short description Claire Dederer (born 1967[1]) is an American writer who regularly contributes essays, reviews and criticism to publications including The New York Times.
She has written three books: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,[2][3] and Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma.
Life and career
Dederer was raised in Seattle, where she was born in 1967. She was a film critic at the Seattle Weekly before turning to freelance journalism.[4] She has taught writing at her alma mater ('93), the University of Washington.[5] She has two adult children with her ex-husband. She lives on a boat in Seattle.[6]
Dederer has written book reviews and articles for The New York Times[7][8] and other publications.[9][10] Her memoir, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning, was published in 2017.[11]
Her brother, Dave Dederer, is a guitarist and singer, best known as a member of the band The Presidents of the United States of America.[11]
Dederer currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University.[12]
Works
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Books
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2010. ISBN 9780374236441.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. Alfred A. Knopf. 2017. ISBN 9781101946503.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma. Hodder & Stoughton. 2023. ISBN 9781399715034.[13][14][15]
Essays
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?". The Paris Review. November 20, 2017. (Winner of Longform essay of the year)[16]
Book reviews
| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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| 2018 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The virtue of illicit desire". The Culture File. Books. The Atlantic. 321 (2): 42–44. Mar 2018.[17] | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Quatro, Jamie (2018). Fire sermon. Grove. |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. Westminster: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-94650-3.
- ^ "A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga", Janet Maslin, The New York Times, December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Chasing Virtue", Dani Shapiro, The New York Times, December 24, 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Seattle Weekly news". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Newsletter of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington" (PDF). University of Washington. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-16.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BIO". CLAIRE DEDERER. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
- ^ "Specimens of Suburbia", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, December 28, 2003.
- ^ "Fiction: The War at Home", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, November 7, 2004.
- ^ Claire Dederer's articles on Slate.com, accessed September 9, 2014.
- ^ Claire Dederer at The Atlantic, accessed September 9, 2014.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble. New York: Alfred Knopf.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Claire Dederer". Pacific University Oregon.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jacobs, Alexandra (2023-04-23). "Face to Face With Culture's 'Monsters'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Febos, Melissa (2023-05-24). "Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cooke, Rachel (2023-05-07). "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer review – what's your cancellation policy?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Arts · Best of 2017 · Longform". Longform. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^ Online version is titled "Fire Sermon is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".
External links
- The Official Website of Claire Dederer
- Can You Love the Art of a Person You Loathe? KQED, Apr 25, 2023
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