Katha Pollitt is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Her most recent book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, makes a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. She is the author of seven books, three of which are collections of political essays and columns: Reasonable Creatures (Vintage, 1995); Subject to Debate (Modern Library, 2001); and Virginity or Death! (Random House, 2006). The Mind-Body Problem: And Other Poems is a book of brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality, and Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories is a collection of personal essays (Random House, 2007).
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Katha Pollitt is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. She has won many awards and prizes for her work, including two National Magazine Awards, one for Essays and Criticism in 1992 and one for Columns and Commentary in 2003. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. Her most recent book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, makes a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good.
Pollitt is a frequent public speaker, with recent appearances at Harvard, Wellesley, Emory University, the University of Louisville, Barnard and the Center for New Words in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been a guest on numerous radio and TV programs. Her poems have appeared in Slate and The New Yorker. Her book, The Mind-Body Problem: And Other Poems is a book of brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Her previous work, a collection of essays, Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories, was reviewed in The New York Review of Books: "The essays... describe the challenges that are the lot of an intelligent, fair-minded, politically alert woman with an inconvenient sense of the absurd. They are full of insight and charm."
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