Caryl Rivers Explained

Caryl Rivers
Birth Place:United States
Occupation:Author, journalist
Genre:Drama, humor, current events, politics, journalism

Caryl Rivers is an American novelist and journalist.[1] Her 1984 novel Virgins was a New York Times Best Seller and sold millions of copies around the world.[2] [3] Her articles have appeared in major publications such as The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Career

Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University.[3] In 1979 she and historian Howard Zinn were among a group of Boston University faculty members who defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.[7] In 2008 Rivers was awarded The Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement which is awarded to an individual for a lifetime of contribution to the journalism profession.[8]

Rivers is also the author of several other books including the 1986 sequel to Virgins, Girls Forever Brave and True,[9] Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs[10] and Camelot, a novel set during the Kennedy administration.[11]

Publications

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Journalism Was a Magic Carpet. October 14, 2008. Amy Laskowski. Bu.edu. April 26, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110314062852/http://www.bu.edu/today/node/7610. March 14, 2011. dead.
  2. Web site: The New York Times. In Short. December 16, 1984.
  3. Web site: Bu.edu. Caryl Rivers.
  4. Web site: The Washington Times. The Myth of 'The Boy Crisis'. Caryl Rivers. Rosalind Chait Barnett. April 9, 2006.
  5. Web site: A feminist success story. The Boston Globe. Caryl Rivers. June 16, 2006.
  6. Web site: Los Angeles Times. Millennial Woman: Make Her GI Jane, Not June Cleaver. October 1, 1997. Caryl Rivers.
  7. Web site: Reuters. Activist, historian Howard Zinn dies at 87. Ros Krasny. January 28, 2010. April 27, 2011.
  8. Web site: SPJ. Caryl Rivers Honored with Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement. August 6, 2008.
  9. Web site: The New York Times. New & Noteworthy. Patricia T. O'Conner. May 10, 1987.
  10. Web site: Same Difference. Findarticles.com.
  11. Web site: Camelot. Publishers Weekly.

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