Patricia Marx

Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and teaches at Princeton University and 92nd Street Y.[1]

Born in Abington, Pennsylvania, she earned her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker,[2] Vogue, and The Atlantic Monthly. Marx is a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats, and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon.[3][4][5] She is the author of the 2007 novel, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, as well as several humor books and children's books.[6]

Bibliography

Books

Novels

• Marx, Patricia (2007). Him her him again the end of him. New York: Scribner.
• — (2011). Starting from happy. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Humor

• Marx, Patricia & Charlotte Stuart (1983). How to regain your virginity – and 99 other recent discoveries about sex. New York: Workman.
• Marx, Patricia (1985). You can never go wrong by lying : and other solutions to the moral and social dilemmas of our time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Blockbuster, (with Douglas G. McGrath), (New York: Bantam Books, 1988)
• You Know You're a Workaholic When--, (New York: Workman, 1993)
• 1,003 Great Things about Getting Older, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman, and David Owen), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997)
• 1,003 Great Things about Kids, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1998)
• 1,003 Great Things about Friends, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1999)
• The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows about Dieting (and Won't Tell You!), (with Susan Sistrom), humor (New York: Dell, 1999)
• 1,003 Great Things about Teachers, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000)
• 1,003 Great Things about Moms, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• 1,003 Great Things about America, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• Birnbach, Lisa; Ann Hodgman & Patricia Marx (2004). 1,003 great things to smile about. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel.
• —; — & — (2005). 1,003 great things about being a woman. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel.
• —; — & — (2006). 1,003 great things about being Jewish. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel.
• You Know You're 40 When--, (with Ann Hodgman), (New York: Broadway Books, 2004)
• Marx, Patricia (2015). Let's be less stupid : an attempt to maintain my mental faculties. New York: Twelve.
• Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Celadon Books, 2019)
• You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Celadon Books, 2020)

Children's books

• Dot in Larryland: The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship, (illustrated by Roz Chast), (New York: Bloombury U.S.A. Children's Books, 2009)

Essays and reporting

• Marx, Patricia (December 8, 2008). "The price is right". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
• — (January 16, 2012). "A bushel and a peck". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 87 (44): 32–36. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
• — (January 30, 2012). "Me, reading". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 35.
• — (April 16, 2012). "You're welcome". Dept. of Travel. The New Yorker. 88 (9): 50–55.[7]
• — (January 14, 2013). "Outsource yourself : the online way to delegate your chores". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 88 (43): 32–35. Retrieved 2015-01-22.
• — (March 4, 2013). "Ladies". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 35. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
• — (March 25, 2013). "Patagonia". Goings on About Town. On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 89 (6): 34. Retrieved 2015-09-05.
• — (August 5, 2013). "Free and the brave". Goings on About Town. On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 89 (23): 9.
• — (February 3, 2014). "A tale of a tub : why go on a cruise when you can go on a freighter?". Our Far-Flung Correspondents. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 26–31.
• — (October 20, 2014). "Pets allowed : why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?". Our Local Correspondents. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 36–41. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
• — (March 23, 2015). "About face : why is South Korea the world's plastic–surgery capital?". Letter from Seoul. The New Yorker. 91 (5): 50–55.[8]
• — (May 27, 2019). "23 and him". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 95 (14): 31.

References

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000175267.

1. From the endpaper of Starting from Happy; she teaches Screenwriting.
2. "Contributors: Patricia Marx". The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
3. Kipnis, Laura (2007-01-24). "Women in Love". Slate. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
4. Kinsley, Susan F (1971-12-10). "Lampoon Admits First Two Women". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2007-01-25.
5. The Starting from Happy endpaper states that she was the first woman to be elected to the Harvard Lampoon.
6. "MFAW-VT, Visiting Writers Profiles". Goddard College. 2006-09-19. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
7. Couch-surfing the globe.
8. Online version is titled "The world capital of plastic surgery".

• Dallas Morning News Mar 22, 1999
• "Harvard's Gifts to Gag Writing" New York Times - Mar 29, 1987
• "Speaking the Unspeakable (No Blushing Is Required)" New York Times - Jun 6, 1998

External links

• Bello, Grace (2011-08-23). "Patricia Marx on Hazing, The New Yorker, and TV Eyebrows". The Hairpin. Retrieved 2012-07-14. (interview with Patricia Marx)
• Broyard, Bliss (2007-01-14). "Just Dump Him Already". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-01-26. (review of Her Him Again the End of Him)
• Franklin, Nancy (2007-01-15). "The Beginning of Her". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2007-02-01.