Patricia Marx is an American

United States

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 humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, and teaches at Princeton University

Princeton University

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.

Born in Abington, Pennsylvania

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, she earned her B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 from Harvard University

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 in 1975. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times

The New York Times

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, The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, Vogue

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, and The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly

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. Marx is a former writer for Saturday Night Live

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and Rugrats

Rugrats

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, and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon

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. 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.

Books

• Starting from Happy (illustrated by the author), humorous novel (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
• Dot in Larryland: The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship, (illustrated by Roz Chast), children's book/humor (New York: Bloombury U.S.A. Children's Books, 2009)
• Him Her Him Again the End of Him, novel (New York: Scribner, 2007)
• 1,003 Great Things about Being Jewish, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2006)
• 1,003 Great Things about Being a Woman, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2005)
• 1,003 Great Things To Smile about, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2004)
• You Know You're 40 When--, (with Ann Hodgman), humor (New York: Broadway Books, 2004)
• 1,003 Great Things about Moms, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• 1,003 Great Things about America, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2002)
• 1,003 Great Things about Teachers, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000)
• 1,003 Great Things about Friends, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (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 Kids, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1998)
• 1,003 Great Things about Getting Older, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman, and David Owen), humor (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997)
• You Know You're a Workaholic When--, humor (New York: Workman, 1993)
• Blockbuster, (with Douglas G. McGrath), humor (New York: Bantam Books, 1988)
• You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time, humor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985)
• How to Regain Your Virginity ... and 99 Other Recent Discoveries about Sex, (with Charlotte Stuart), humor (New York: Workman, 1983)

External links

(review of Her Him Again the End of Him)