Marion Winik

Marion Winik is a journalist and author, best known for her work on NPR's All Things Considered.[1]

Early life and education

Winik was born in Manhattan in 1958 and grew up on the Jersey shore. She graduated from Brown University in 1978, majoring in History and Semiotics,[2] and received her MFA from Brooklyn College in 1983.[3]

Notable work

In her childhood and early twenties, Winik focused on writing poetry, publishing two collections, Nonstop and Boycrazy.[4] Winik then began writing personal essays, which were published in The Austin Chronicle.[5] These essays caught John Burnett's eye, who was an NPR reporter based in Austin at the time. He suggested that Winik she work as a commentator for All Things Considered and her first piece was published there in 1991.[6] The following year, a literary agent contact her, resulting in the 1994 publication of Telling, a collection of Winik's essays. [7]

A couple years later in 1996, Winik published First Comes Love, a memoir about her marriage to Tony, who died of AIDS in 1994.[8] In her review of the book in the New York Times, Daphne Merkin wrote, "Marion Winik is resilient, hardy, unfazable; this self-described "suburban boho wannabe" is a frontier woman in disguise."[8]

References
  1. "Marion Winik: Personal Essays". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  2. "Marion Winik CV" (PDF). University of Baltimore.
  3. "Marion Winik's life story". marionwinik.com. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  4. "Marion Winik NPR Commentator, Humorist, Memoirist". Red Brick Agency. 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  5. "Author Archives: Marion Winik - The Austin Chronicle". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  6. "Marion Winik: Personal Essays". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  7. Winik, Marion (1995). Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light. ISBN 0679755225.
  8. "NYTimes". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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