Allegra Goodman
Encyclopedia
Allegra Goodman is an American
author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
. Her most recent novel, The Cookbook Collector, was published in 2010. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. http://starbulletin.com/97/08/01/features/donnelly.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT in Honolulu, Hawaii
. She graduated from Punahou School
in 1985. Goodman then went on to Harvard University
, where she earned an A.B.
degree and met her husband, David Karger
. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minyan
. They then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University
, where Goodman earned a Ph.D.
degree in English literature. http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT Her mother, the late Madeline Goodman, was a genetics and women's studies professor, then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University
in the 1990s http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/register/Oct7_96/vr1.html. Her father, Lenn E. Goodman, is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt. Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist. Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspiratons for Goodman's 2006 novel Intuition.http://news.hawaii.com/article/2006/Apr/16/il/FP604160319.html
Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Karger is a researcher in computer science at MIT. They have four children, three boys and a girl.2006
United States
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author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
. Her most recent novel, The Cookbook Collector, was published in 2010. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. http://starbulletin.com/97/08/01/features/donnelly.html
Early years and family
Goodman was raised a Conservative JewConservative Judaism
Conservative Judaism is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.Conservative Judaism has its roots in the school of thought known as Positive-Historical Judaism,...
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT in Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...
. She graduated from Punahou School
Punahou School
Punahou School, once known as Oahu College, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school located in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu in the U.S. State of Hawaii...
in 1985. Goodman then went on to Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, where she earned an A.B.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree and met her husband, David Karger
David Karger
David Karger is a Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He received an AB from Harvard University and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University. Dr...
. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minyan
Minyan
A minyan in Judaism refers to the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations. According to many non-Orthodox streams of Judaism adult females count in the minyan....
. They then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, where Goodman earned a Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
degree in English literature. http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap04-12-210927.asp?t=XXENT Her mother, the late Madeline Goodman, was a genetics and women's studies professor, then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
in the 1990s http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/register/Oct7_96/vr1.html. Her father, Lenn E. Goodman, is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt. Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist. Fraenkel's experience in research labs is one of the inspiratons for Goodman's 2006 novel Intuition.http://news.hawaii.com/article/2006/Apr/16/il/FP604160319.html
Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Karger is a researcher in computer science at MIT. They have four children, three boys and a girl.2006
Novels
- The Family MarkowitzThe Family MarkowitzThe Family Markowitz is a 1996 novel, made up of a series of linked short stories written by Allegra Goodman.-Plot summary:Centred around a middle-class American Jewish family, The Family Markowitz touches on themes ranging from religiosity to ageing and from homosexuality to intermarriage...
(Farrar Straus & Giroux 1996; softcover Washington Square Press 1997) ISBN 0-374-15321-3, ISBN 0-671-01388-2 - Kaaterskill FallsKaaterskill Falls (novel)Kaaterskill Falls is a 1998 novel by Allegra Goodman, set in a small Catskill Mountains, New York, USA, community of predominantly Orthodox Jews during summers in the mid-1970s.-Plot:...
(The Dial Press 1998; paperback Dial Press Trade Paperback 1999) ISBN 0-385-32389-1, ISBN 0-385-32390-5 - Paradise Park (The Dial Press 2001, Dial Press Trade Paperback 2002) ISBN 0-385-33416-8, ISBN 0-385-33418-4
- Intuition (The Dial Press 2006), ISBN 0-385-33612-8
- The Other Side of the Island (New York: Razorbill, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59514-196-5
- The Cookbook Collector (The Dial Press 2010) ISBN 978-0-385-34085-4
Short stories
- Total Immersion (Harper & Row 1989; paperback Dial PressDial PressThe Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh.Dial Press shared a building with The Dial and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924. Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W.R...
Trade Paperback 1998) ISBN 0-06-015998-7, ISBN 0-385-33299-8 - "The Closet" 1997
- "La Vita Nuova" 2010
External links
- Allegra Goodman's webpage
- Allegra Goodman profile at Bookreporter.com
- 2006 Newspaper article on Allegra Goodman
- 2006 MSNBC article on Allegra Goodman
- 2006 Allegra Goodman interview in the Washington Post
- Allegra Goodman entry on The Literary Encyclopedia