THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Vivian Gornick
“Our Ideas Became Our Lives.”
Critic, journalist, essayist, memoirist and educator. Vivian earned a BA from City College of New York in 1957 and an MA from New York University in 1960. She worked as a reporter for the Village Voice from 1969 to 1997, and has published work in the New York Times, The Nation, Atlantic Monthly and many other publications. Her numerous books include Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader (2020); The Odd Woman and the City (2015); The Men In My Life (2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Essays in Feminism (1978).
Interviewed by Linda Boyd Kavars, 1991
Photo 1. Vivian Gornick in the 1970s, photograph: Verso Books. Photo 2. Vivian Gornick, 2021.
More About Vivian:
- Vivian Gornick Biography
- Titles By Vivian Gornick on Amazon
- On C-SPAN
- Select interviews
- Vivian Gornick: A Life in Writing, In conversation with Andrew Kelly, March 18, 2021
- “We All Have to Become Philosophers”: An Interview with Vivian Gornick, March 16, 2021
- Vivian Gornick on the Radical Life of Emma Goldman, November 3, 2020
- Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business, The Strand Book Store, March 4, 2020
- Vivian Gornick: “Thinking is the hardest thing in the world,” interviewed by Rachel Cooke, August 15, 2020
- Structure is Everything: An Interview with Vivian Gornick, August 26, 2019
- A Conversation with writer Vivian Gornick, April 28, 2018
- Vivian Gornick discusses her first book, In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in Egypt, as part of The Paris Review‘s “My First Time” series. July 19, 2016
- Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City, June 2, 2015
- Select articles by Vivian Gornick
- Veteran Feminists of America
- Filmed by Linda Kavars
- Feminist Day at Kate Millett’s Farm – August 1992
- Moderator: Linda Clarke, Camera: Julie Weber
- Panelists: Ti-Grace Atkinson, Flo Kennedy, Kate Millett, Vivian Gornick
- Reading by Kate Millett from two of her books–The Politics of Cruelty & Mother Millett
- Feminist Day at Kate Millett’s Farm – August 1992
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 182