{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Claire Dederer | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Claire Dederer 01.jpg | image_upright = | landscape = | alt = | caption = Claire Dederer, 2024 | pronunciation = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|01|06}} | birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S. | baptised = | disappeared_date = | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | burial_place = | burial_coordinates = | monuments = | nationality = | other_names = | siglum = | citizenship = American | education = | alma_mater = University of Washington | occupation = Writer, essayist, critic | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = Essays, book reviews, memoirs | notable_works = ''Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses'', ''Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning'', ''Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma'' | style = | television = | height = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | otherparty = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charges = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = Bruce Barcott (married 1997–2023) Peter Ames Carlin (married 2025–present) | partner = | children = 2 | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = Dave Dederer (brother) | family = | callsign = | awards = Longform essay of the year (2017) 2024 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature | website = {{URL|clairedederer.com}} | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_type = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}
{{short description|American writer|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Claire Dederer''' (born 1967<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dederer |first=Claire |title=Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning |date=2017 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-101-94650-3 |location=Westminster}}</ref>) is an American writer who regularly contributes essays, reviews and criticism to publications including ''The New York Times''.
She has written three books: ''Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning'', ''Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses'',<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/books/23book.html "A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga"], Janet Maslin, ''The New York Times'', December 22, 2010.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Shapiro-t.html "Chasing Virtue"], Dani Shapiro, ''The New York Times'', December 24, 2010.</ref> and ''Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma''.
==Life and career== Dederer was raised in Seattle, where she was born in 1967. She was a film critic at the ''Seattle Weekly'' before turning to freelance journalism.<ref>{{cite web|title=Seattle Weekly news|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-01-05/calendar/claire-dederer/|website=Seattle Weekly|access-date=2014-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025034841/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-01-05/calendar/claire-dederer/|archive-date=2014-10-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> She has taught writing at her alma mater ('93), the University of Washington.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Newsletter of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington|url=https://chid.washington.edu/sites/chid/files/chid-newsletter-spring-2006.pdf|website=University of Washington|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016194015/https://chid.washington.edu/sites/chid/files/chid-newsletter-spring-2006.pdf|archive-date=2014-10-16}}</ref> She has two adult children with her ex-husband. She lives on a boat in Seattle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BIO |url=https://www.clairedederer.com/bio |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=CLAIRE DEDERER |language=en-US}}</ref>
Dederer has written book reviews and articles for ''The New York Times''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/books/specimens-of-suburbia.html "Specimens of Suburbia"], Claire Dederer, ''The New York Times'', December 28, 2003.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/books/review/07DEDERER.html "Fiction: The War at Home"], Claire Dederer, ''The New York Times'', November 7, 2004.</ref> and other publications.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/authors.claire_dederer.html Claire Dederer's articles on Slate.com], accessed September 9, 2014.</ref><ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/claire-dederer/ Claire Dederer at ''The Atlantic''], accessed September 9, 2014.</ref> Her memoir, ''Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning'', was published in 2017.<ref name="trouble">{{cite book |last1=Dederer |first1=Claire |title=Love and Trouble |date=2017 |publisher=Alfred Knopf |location=New York}}</ref>
Her brother, Dave Dederer, is a guitarist and singer, best known as a member of the band The Presidents of the United States of America.<ref name="trouble"/>
Dederer currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University.<ref>{{cite web |title=Claire Dederer |url=https://www.pacificu.edu/about/directory/people/claire-dederer |website=Pacific University Oregon}}</ref>
==Works== {{Incomplete list|date=July 2019}}
===Books=== *{{cite book|isbn = 9780374236441|title = Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses|year = 2010|publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux}} *{{cite book|isbn = 9781101946503|title = Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning|year = 2017|publisher = Alfred A. Knopf}} *{{cite book|isbn = 9781399715034|title = Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma|year = 2023|publisher = Hodder & Stoughton}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Alexandra |date=2023-04-23 |title=Face to Face With Culture's 'Monsters' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/books/monsters-review-claire-dederer.html |access-date=2023-06-23 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Febos |first=Melissa |date=2023-05-24 |title=Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster? |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-you-love-the-art-and-hate-the-artist |access-date=2023-06-23 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cooke |first=Rachel |date=2023-05-07 |title=Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer review – what's your cancellation policy? |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/07/monsters-a-fans-dilemma-by-claire-dederer-review-whats-your-cancellation-policy |access-date=2023-06-23 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
=== Essays ===
* {{Cite journal|date=November 20, 2017|title=What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/|journal=The Paris Review}} (Winner of Longform essay of the year)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arts · Best of 2017 · Longform|url=https://longform.org/lists/best-of-2017/arts|access-date=2021-09-19|website=Longform|language=en}}</ref>
===Book reviews=== {|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |- !|Year !class='unsortable'|Review article !class='unsortable'|Work(s) reviewed |- |2018 |{{cite journal <!--|author=Dederer, Claire -->|date=Mar 2018 |title=The virtue of illicit desire |department=The Culture File. Books |journal=The Atlantic |volume=321 |issue=2 |pages=42–44 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/fire-sermon-jamie-quatro-review/550898/ <!--accessdate=2019-07-20-->}}<ref>Online version is titled "''Fire Sermon'' is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".</ref> |{{cite book |author=Quatro, Jamie |author-link=Jamie Quatro |title=Fire sermon |publisher=Grove |year=2018 <!--isbn=-->}} |}
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==External links== *[http://www.clairedederer.com/ The Official Website of Claire Dederer] *[https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892940/can-you-love-the-art-of-a-person-you-loathe Can You Love the Art of a Person You Loathe?] KQED, Apr 25, 2023
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