Biography:Caitlin Flanagan

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Short description: American writer and social critic (born 1961)
Caitlin Flanagan
Born (1961-11-14) November 14, 1961 (age 62)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Virginia (BA, MA)
Occupationwriter
social critic
Parent(s)
  • Thomas Flanagan (father)
RelativesAndrew Klavan (brother-in-law)

Caitlin Flanagan (born November 14, 1961) is an American writer and social critic.[1] A contributor to The Atlantic since February 2001,[2][3] she was a staff writer for The New Yorker in 2004, contributing five articles in 2004 and 2005, including To Hell with All That.[4][5][6] In 2019, she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary award.[7]

She is the author of To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife (2006) and Girl Land (2012).

Early life and education

Flanagan was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Berkeley, California.[1] She is the daughter of Jean (Parker), a nurse, and writer Thomas Flanagan.[1][8] In 1978, she was sexually assaulted by a high school classmate.[9] She attempted suicide the following year.[10] Her sister Ellen is married to novelist Andrew Klavan.[11]

Flanagan holds a B.A. and an M.A. (1989) in art history from the University of Virginia.[12]

Career

Before becoming a writer, Flanagan was an English teacher and college counselor at Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, a theme she later returned to in her articles about college admissions.[13]

Flanagan's writing and social criticism frequently explore the intersection of public and private, and seek to expose hypocrisies in social narratives of the powerful and the prominent. Although such critiques sometimes use traditionally conservative arguments, Flanagan has referred to herself as a Democrat and a liberal.[14] Bitch magazine awarded Flanagan its "Douchebag of the Century" award for her criticism of feminism.[15] Flanagan wrote an article in support of Dianne Feinstein's response to youth climate activists, who were mostly from a 350.org chapter, in which she placed the Green New Deal in "the worlds of magic and make-believe," which was met with objections from the activists and others.[16][17][18]

She has written about contradictory currents in the lives of American women, including herself, who discovered later in life a joy in motherhood and social value in domesticity that ran counter to the view of women's domestic lives as oppressive. Some of her essays underscore the emotional rewards and social value of a housewife's role. Consequently, she has been criticized, for instance by Joan Walsh, for misrepresenting her life choices and then condemning other women for not choosing a lifestyle Flanagan herself did not choose either.[19]

In her article "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement", Flanagan challenged the narrative of economic and social liberation of women credited to feminism by accusing middle-class women of succeeding at the expense of foreign nannies and illegal workers who replaced them in mothering roles. She argued that these women, while claiming to be virtuous and concerned for others, simultaneously robbed these workers by not paying Social Security taxes.[20]

Flanagan has appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report[19] and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Flanagan's book To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife was published by Little, Brown in 2006.[21][1] The book was developed from a New Yorker essay by the same title, as well as other magazine pieces by Flanagan and new writing.[1] In 2012, she published a book about teenage girls, Girl Land.[22][23][24][25]

Personal life

Flanagan previously lived in Los Angeles. She had twin sons, Patrick and Conor, in 1998.[26] In 2003, when her children were in preschool, she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, which later metastasized to other parts of her body.[27][28]

Bibliography

Books

Selected articles

The Atlantic ; June 2022; Chasing Joan Didion; Visiting the Writer's California homes, from Berkeley to Malibu. What was I looking for?

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Hulbert, Ann (2006-04-25). "Mother's Hypocritical Helper: Why Caitlin Flanagan drives her readers nuts". Slate.com. http://www.slate.com/id/2140544/. 
  2. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin. "Caitlin Flanagan". https://www.theatlantic.com/author/caitlin-flanagan/?page=3. 
  3. ↑ "To hell with all that magazine writing". Salon.com. 2006-11-22. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/22/flanagan/. 
  4. ↑ "Contributors". The New Yorker: 8. 5 July 2004. https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/2004-07-05/flipbook/008/. Retrieved 13 March 2021. 
  5. ↑ "Caitlin Flanagan". The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/caitlin-flanagan. Retrieved 29 April 2018. 
  6. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin (28 June 2004). "To Hell With All That". https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/07/05/to-hell-with-all-that. 
  7. ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University (2019). "Finalist: Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic". https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/caitlin-flanagan-atlantic. 
  8. ↑ Colby, Vineta; Wilson, H. W. (1991). World Authors, 1980-1985. ISBN 9780824207977. https://books.google.com/books?id=-XcYAAAAIAAJ&q=Jean+(Parker+flanagan. 
  9. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin (September 18, 2018). "I Believe Her". https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/me-too/570520/. 
  10. ↑ "A High School Assault". September 20, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/podcasts/the-daily/kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-caitlin-flanagan-sexual-assault.html. 
  11. ↑ Robinson, Peter (August 2, 2008). "That Despicable Winston Churchill". National Review. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/despicable-winston-churchill-peter-robinson/. "....reminded me of an exchange I had with my father-in-law, Thomas Flanagan, brilliant guy, old school academic lefty. Flanagan, the author of a marvelous trilogy of novels about Ireland, the first of which is “The Year of the French,” taught at Berkeley" 
  12. ↑ "alumni news [graduate art history"]. News University of Virginia McIntire Department of Art Carl H. and Martha S. Lindner Center for Art History. Fall 2005. http://www.virginia.edu/art/pdf/newsletters/2005news.pdf. 
  13. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin (September 2001). "Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor". https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/flanagan. 
  14. ↑ "Making Sense Podcast #165 - Journey into Wokeness" (in en-US). https://samharris.org/podcasts/165-journey-wokeness/. 
  15. ↑ Townsend, Kevin (2018-02-27). "The Atlantic Interview: Caitlin Flanagan" (in en-US). https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/02/the-atlantic-interview-caitlin-flanagan/570256/. 
  16. ↑ "Members of Youth vs. Apocalypse Defend Their Exchange With Dianne Feinstein" (in en). 2019-03-01. https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2019/03/youth-vs-apocalypse-respond-feinstein-and-green-new-deal/583852/. 
  17. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin (2019-02-24). "Dianne Feinstein Doesn’t Need a Do-Over" (in en). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/dianne-feinstein-video-climate-change-sunrise-movement/583501/. 
  18. ↑ "Perspective | Why Dianne Feinstein was wrong to dismiss child activists as political pawns" (in en-US). Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/05/why-diane-feinstein-was-wrong-dismiss-child-activists-political-pawns/. 
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Walsh, Joan (2006-05-02). "Yes, Caitlin Flanagan, You Can Stay a Democrat!". HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yes-caitlin-flanagan-you-_b_20252. 
  20. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin (2004-03-01). "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement" (in en-US). https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/03/how-serfdom-saved-the-women-s-movement/302892/. 
  21. ↑ Paul, Pamela (2006-04-16). "Mother Superior" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/books/review/mother-superior.html. 
  22. ↑ Gregory, Alice (January 9, 2012). "'Girl Land' by Caitlin Flanagan". Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/01/09/girl-land-caitlin-flanagan/v0jMgrtGsbT2XpSBDswp4I/story.html. 
  23. ↑ O'Rourke, Meghan (January 22, 2012). "Never-Never Land". http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/caitlin-flanagan-2012-1/. 
  24. ↑ Day, Elizabeth (2012-02-03). "Girl Land by Caitlin Flanagan – review". https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/03/girl-land-caitlin-flanagan-review. 
  25. ↑ Keller, Emma Gilbey (2012). "Girl Land - By Caitlin Flanagan - Book Review" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/girl-land-by-caitlin-flanagan-book-review.html. 
  26. ↑ "The mother lode - Los Angeles Times". https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-12-et-flanagan12-story.html. 
  27. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin (June 2020). "I Have Cancer and I'm Just Trying to Stay Alive". The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/surviving-cancer-coronavirus-pandemic/610594/. 
  28. ↑ Flanagan, Caitlin (23 August 2021). "I'll Tell You the Secret of Cancer" (in en). The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/caitlin-flanagan-secret-of-surviving-cancer/619844/. Retrieved 24 August 2021. 
  29. ↑ Online version is titled "The comic-strip heroine I'll never forget".

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