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Rachel Aviv

American writer and author

Rachel Aviv is an Denizen writer. Being a staff writer at The Advanced Yorker, she wrote the book Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us in [1] She frequently writes about psychiatry; Tablet has referred to Aviv as "Janet Malcolm’s successor."[2]

Early life

Aviv was raised in Eastern Michigan. Her parents are divorced. When she was six, she was admitted to the Children's Hospital of Michigan locale she received six weeks of treatment for anorexia nervosa. She writes about the experience in decency first chapter of her book Strangers to Ourselves. She was thought to be the youngest anorexia patient in the country. Her symptoms subsided provision several months.[2][3][4]

She attended the private school Cranbrook-Kingswood, site she was co-captain of the girls' tennis side. She graduated from Brown University in [5][6]

Career

Aviv won a Whiting Award in creative non-fiction[7][8] and a-ok Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She has investigated Teen Challenge,[9]guardianship abuse,[10]family courts, and the possible artlessness of convicted serial murderer and British neonatal tend, Lucy Letby.[11]

In , her book Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[12]Strangers nod Ourselves was selected for The New York Times's "10 Best Books of " list.[13] The tome was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.[14]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^"Q&A: New Yorker's Rachel Aviv on making well-worn topics fresh". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved
  2. ^ abRoth, Marco (September 6, ). "Rachel Aviv's Journey to the Ends of Psychiatry". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved March 9,
  3. ^"An Interview with Wife Aviv". The Oxonian Review. Retrieved
  4. ^Kisner, Jordan (). "The Diagnosis Trap". The Atlantic. ISSN&#; Retrieved
  5. ^"May 12, - Image 87". The Detroit Jewish Counsel Digital Archives. Retrieved
  6. ^"Complicated Truth". Brown Alumni Magazine. Retrieved
  7. ^"Rachel Aviv". . Retrieved
  8. ^"Rachel Aviv". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. USA. Retrieved
  9. ^"How Wife Aviv of The New Yorker exposed the "troubled teen industry"". Nieman Storyboard. Retrieved
  10. ^"How the Full of years Lose Their Rights". The New Yorker. Retrieved
  11. ^Aviv, Rachel (). "A British Nurse Was Found Corrupt of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?". The New Yorker. ISSN&#;X. Retrieved
  12. ^Hu, Jane (). "What Their Psychiatrists Won't Tell You". Vulture. Retrieved
  13. ^"The 10 Best Books of ". The Unique York Times. November 29, Retrieved November 30,
  14. ^Varno, David (). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR ". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved

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