Life

Amy Wilentz was raised in Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Perth Amboy is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The City of Perth Amboy is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 50,814. Perth Amboy is known as the "City by the Bay", referring to Raritan Bay.-Name:The Lenape...

 and New York City. She is the daughter of Robert Wilentz

Robert Wilentz

Robert Nathan Wilentz was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996, making him the longest-serving Chief Justice since the Supreme Court became New Jersey's highest court in 1948.-Biography:...

 (February 17, 1927 – July 23, 1996) and Jacqueline Malino Wilentz (December 15, 1927 – March 29, 1989). Her father was Chief Justice

Chief Justice

The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

 of the New Jersey Supreme Court

New Jersey Supreme Court

The New Jersey Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It has existed in three different forms under the three different state constitutions since the independence of the state in 1776...

 from 1979 to 1996; her mother was a painter. She graduated from Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

. She is the granddaughter of David T. Wilentz

David T. Wilentz

David Theodore Wilentz was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1934 to 1944. In 1935 he successfully prosecuted Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial...

 (December 21, 1894 – July 6, 1988), who was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1934 to 1944. In 1935, he successfully prosecuted Bruno Hauptmann

Bruno Hauptmann

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German ex-convict sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as "The Crime of the Century".-Background:Hauptmann was born in Kamenz in the German Empire,...

 in the Lindbergh Kidnapping

Lindbergh kidnapping

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was the abduction of the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The toddler, 18 months old at the time, was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey, near the town of Hopewell, New Jersey, on the evening of...

 trial.

In November 1989, she married Nicholas Goldberg, a son of Richard Goldberg of Wiesbaden, West Germany, and Uli Beigel Monaco of Nyack, NY. She lives in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 and teaches in the Literary Journalism program within the English Department at the University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

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Her works appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Chronicle, More, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books, Huffington Post.
She was Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker, and is currently a contributing editor at The Nation.

Awards

• 1990 Whiting Writers' Award
  Whiting Writers' Award
  The Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...
  
  
• PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award
• 2000 Rosenthal Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1990 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Author's facebook"
• "Review: MARTYRS' CROSSING", Book Reporter
• "Love and Haiti by Amy Wilentz", Repeating Islands, August 19, 2009
• "Amy Wilentz", Charlie Rose
• "'The Exile's Return': A Profile of Benazir Bhutto", The Washington Post, December 28, 2007
• "California Girl", The New York Times, September 3, 2006