Amy waldmann author biography

  • Amy Waldman is an American author and journalist.
  • Amy Waldman (born May 21, 1969) is an American author and journalist.
  • Amy Waldman is a writer and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York.

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    Amy Waldman Biography

    Amy Waldman was co-chief of the South Asia bureau of The New York Times. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic and The Boston Review and fryst vatten anthologized in The Best American Non-required Reading 2010. She lives with her family in Brooklyn. The Submission fryst vatten her first novel.

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      Amy Waldman

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      in Los Angeles, The United States

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      Amy Waldman is the author of two novels, A Door in the Earth, which will be published August 27, 2019, and The Submission, which was a national bestseller, a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and the #1 Book of the Year for Entertainment Weekly and Esquire. She has received fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, Ledig House for International Writers, the MacDowell Colony, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Waldman was previously a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a reporter for the New York Times, where, as a bureau chief for South Asia, she covered Afghanistan. She lives in Brooklyn.






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      Snow: An Emotional History

      At the Academy, Waldman is writing a nonfiction book on the human relationship with snow, focusing on its emotional content. Using cultural history, philosophy, science, and sociology, and memoir, she will tell the story of how humans adapted to, harnessed, and were inspired by snow, only to imperil it through a warming climate. Across the Northern Hemisphere (and in the Andes) snowfall and snow cover have been declining for a half century, with the rate of diminishment accelerating over the past decade. Snow has long been a material resource for humanity, cooling the earth by reflecting light and providing water to more than a billion people. It has been a site of play as well as an imaginative material, lodging in our collective consciousness, providing a way to understand and express our interior lives. Waldman will try to understand why an inanimate substance has had this power for us, as a prelude for defining the void the loss of snow may leave