Jennifer Senior
American journalist
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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[1] and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, both for the article "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind," published in The Atlantic in September 2021.[2] The essay was reprinted in book form in 2023.[3] It explores the aftermath of 9/11 for surviving family members. She also wrote an account of her mentally handicapped aunt who was institutionalized.[4]
She graduated from Princeton University, majoring in anthropology, in 1991.[5] She is the author of the 2014 New York Times best-selling book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.[6][7][8][9]
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."[10]
