Monday, February 3, 2025

Jennifer Senior

JENNIFER SENIOR is a staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer for Feature Writing. Prior to joining The Atlantic, she spent five years at the New York Times—first as one of its daily book critics, then as columnist for the Opinion page. Before that, she spent eighteen years as a staff writer for New York Magazine. Her first book, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was named one of Slate's Top 10 Books of 2014, and has been translated into twelve languages. In addition to the Pulitzer, Senior has won a variety of journalism prizes, including a National Magazine Award, a GLAAD award, two Front Page Awards from the Newswomen's Club of New York, and the Erikson Prize in Mental Health Media. Her work has been anthologized four times in The Best American Political Writing, and her profile of the psychologist Philip Brickman was selected for The Best American Science Writing of 2021. She lives in New York with her husband and son.

- Contributors' Notes, The Best American Essays 2024.

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