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Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick, the founder of THEA, is a New York writer: born, bred, and educated. She began her writing career thirty years ago at The Village Voice where, for a number of years, she wrote essays, reviews, and articles, concentrating mainly on the burgeoning feminist movement of which she was an early member. In the years since that time her pieces have appeared in the Nation, the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, and the Threepenny Review. She has written eight books; among them an acclaimed memoir (Fierce Attachments) and two influential collections of essays (Approaching Eye Level and The End of the Novel of Love). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and one of her books was partially funded by a Ford Foundation grant. She has also taught nonfiction writing at a university level for the past fifteen years. At the present time she writes a monthly piece for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, is researching a book on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and works hard at making THEA a reality.