Jennifer Senior

{{Short description|American journalist}} '''Jennifer Senior''' is an American journalist, columnist, book critic, and author. She is a staff writer at ''The Atlantic'' and has been an Op-Ed columnist for the ''New York Times'' since September 2018. Previously, she was a columnist and a book critic at the ''New York Times,'' and a staff writer for ''New York magazine''.

In 2022, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jennifer-senior-atlantic |title=Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic |website=www.pulitzer.org |access-date=2022-08-25 |archive-date=2022-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825161841/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jennifer-senior-atlantic |url-status=live }}</ref> and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, both for the article "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind," published in ''The Atlantic'' in September 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Senior |first1=Jennifer |title=What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/twenty-years-gone-911-bobby-mcilvaine/619490/ |access-date=10 March 2024 |issue=September 2021 |publisher=The Atlantic}}</ref> The essay was reprinted in book form in 2023.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Senior |first=Jennifer |title=On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory |publisher=Zando Projects (Atlantic Editions) |year=2023 |isbn=9781638930747 |location=New York |language=en-US}}</ref> It explores the aftermath of 9/11 for surviving family members. She also wrote an account of her mentally handicapped aunt who was institutionalized.<ref>https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/jennifer-senior-atlantic</ref>

She graduated from Princeton University, majoring in anthropology, in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/tiger-week-author-jennifer-senior-91 |title=Tiger of the Week: Author Jennifer Senior '91 |date=21 January 2016 |access-date=2023-02-15 |archive-date=2023-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215180225/https://paw.princeton.edu/article/tiger-week-author-jennifer-senior-91 |url-status=live }}</ref> She is the author of the 2014 ''New York Times'' best-selling book ''All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/books/review/all-joy-and-no-fun-by-jennifer-senior.html|title=Under Pressure|first=Andrew|last=Solomon|work=The New York Times |date=January 31, 2014|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=January 5, 2023|archive-date=January 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105214427/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/books/review/all-joy-and-no-fun-by-jennifer-senior.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/02/jennifer-seniors-all-joy-and-no-fun-reviewed.html|title=Is Parenting Really All Joy and No Fun? A Happily Childless Reviewer Investigates Jennifer Senior's Book.|first=Aileen|last=Gallagher|date=February 3, 2014|website=Slate Magazine|access-date=January 5, 2023|archive-date=January 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105214525/https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/02/jennifer-seniors-all-joy-and-no-fun-reviewed.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bellack |first=Marisa |date=2014-02-06 |title=Book Review: 'All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood' by Jennifer Senior |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-all-joy-and-no-fun-the-paradox-of-modern-parenthood-by-jennifer-senior/2014/02/06/f2d7842c-8934-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html |access-date=2023-04-26 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=2022-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129220921/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-all-joy-and-no-fun-the-paradox-of-modern-parenthood-by-jennifer-senior/2014/02/06/f2d7842c-8934-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062072221 |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=www.publishersweekly.com |archive-date=2023-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426072528/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062072221 |url-status=live }}</ref>

She has written about her experience suffering from Long COVID: "Long COVID symptoms often change. This syndrome is wily, protean—imagine a mischief of mice moving through the walls of your house and laying waste to different bits of circuitry and infrastructure as they go."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/long-covid-symptoms-chronic-illness-disability/673057/|title=What Not to Ask Me About My Long COVID|first=Jennifer|last=Senior|website=The Atlantic |date=February 14, 2023|access-date=February 15, 2023|archive-date=February 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215180258/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/long-covid-symptoms-chronic-illness-disability/673057/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://jennifersenior.net/ Official website]

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