Anne Roiphe

About The Author

Anne Roiphe is a writer, essayist, and journalist known as a first-generation feminist. She is revered for such novels as Up the Sandbox, which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972, 1185 Park Avenue, and Lovingkindness, as well as for her memoirs Art and Madness and Epilogue. In addition to her fiction and nonfiction books, she has written articles for The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Elle, among others. Roiphe’s 1997 memoir, Fruitful, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in New York.

Books by Anne Roiphe

For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor

An American Read

By Anne Roiphe
What does it mean to love a character in a book? Many of us do. Many of us always have. These loves are not the subject of late-night phone conversations with friends or entries in our secret diaries. Yet, as Anne Roiphe reveals in her stunning new book, the characters we know only in fiction liv...
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1185 Park Avenue

A Memoir

By Anne Roiphe
From National Book Award nominee Anne Roiphe comes this moving memoir of growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money, status, culture -- everything but happiness.
While the nation was at war abroad, Roiphe, who was coming of age in 1940s New York City, saw her parents at ...
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