Rachel Aviv Explained

Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker who wrote the book Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us in 2022.[1] She frequently writes about psychiatry, and Tablet called her "Janet Malcolm’s successor".

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 where she received six weeks of treatment for anorexia nervosa. She writes about the experience in the first chapter of her book Strangers to Ourselves. She was thought to be the youngest anorexia patient in the country. Her symptoms subsided after several months.[2] [3] [4]

She attended the private school Cranbrook-Kingswood, where she was co-captain of the girls' tennis team. She graduated from Brown University in 2004.[5] [6]

Career

Aviv won a 2020 Whiting Award in creative non-fiction[7] [8] and a 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She has investigated Teen Challenge,[9] guardianship abuse,[10] family courts, and the possible innocence of convicted serial murderer and British neonatal nurse, Lucy Letby.[11]

In 2022, her book Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[12] Strangers to Ourselves was selected for The New York Timess "10 Best Books of 2022" list.[13] The book was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.[14]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Q&A: New Yorker’s Rachel Aviv on making well-worn topics fresh . 2022-08-31 . Columbia Journalism Review . en.
  2. News: Roth . Marco . September 6, 2022 . Rachel Aviv’s Journey to the Ends of Psychiatry . March 9, 2024 . Tablet Magazine.
  3. Web site: An Interview with Rachel Aviv . 2024-03-10 . The Oxonian Review . en.
  4. News: Kisner . Jordan . 2022-09-13 . The Diagnosis Trap . 2024-03-10 . The Atlantic . en . 2151-9463.
  5. Web site: May 12, 2000 - Image 87 . 2024-03-10 . The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives . en.
  6. Web site: 2016-03-18 . Complicated Truth. 2022-10-16 . Brown Alumni Magazine . en-US.
  7. Web site: Rachel Aviv . 2022-08-31 . www.whiting.org.
  8. Web site: Rachel Aviv . 2022-08-31 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  9. Web site: How Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker exposed the "troubled teen industry" . 2022-08-31 . Nieman Storyboard . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2017-10-02 . How the Elderly Lose Their Rights . 2022-08-31 . The New Yorker . en-US.
  11. News: Aviv . Rachel . 2024-05-13 . A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It? . 2024-05-15 . The New Yorker . en-US . 0028-792X.
  12. Web site: Hu . Jane . 2022-12-23 . What Their Psychiatrists Won’t Tell You . 2024-03-10 . Vulture . en.
  13. News: November 29, 2022 . The 10 Best Books of 2022 . November 30, 2022 . The New York Times.
  14. Web site: Varno . David . 2023-02-01 . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022 . 2023-02-03 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.

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