Caryl Rivers

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]

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

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 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 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. "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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