Claire Dederer

Claire Dederer (born 1967) is an American writer. Her book Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,[1][2] was a New York Times best seller.[3]

Life and career

Dederer was raised in Seattle, where she was born in 1967. She was a film critic at the Seattle Weekly before turning to freelance journalism.[4] She has taught writing at her alma mater ('93), the University of Washington[5] and lives with her family on Bainbridge Island.

Dederer has written book reviews and articles for The New York Times[6][7] and other publications.[8][9] Her memoir, Love and Trouble - a midlife reckoning, was published in 2017.[10]

Her brother, Dave Dederer, is a guitarist and singer, best known for the band The Presidents of the United States of America.[10]

Bibliography
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Books
  • Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning. 2017.

Book reviews
Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2018 "The virtue of illicit desire". The Culture File. Books. The Atlantic. 321 (2): 42–44. Mar 2018.[11] Quatro, Jamie (2018). Fire sermon. Grove.

References
  1. "A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga", Janet Maslin, The New York Times, December 22, 2010.
  2. "Chasing Virtue", Dani Shapiro, The New York Times, December 24, 2010.
  3. Hardcover Nonfiction, The New York Times, February 6, 2011.
  4. "Seattle Weekly news". Seattle Weekly.
  5. "A Newsletter of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington" (PDF). University of Washington. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-16.
  6. "Specimens of Suburbia", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, December 28, 2003.
  7. "Fiction: The War at Home", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, November 7, 2004.
  8. Claire Dederer's articles on Slate.com, accessed September 9, 2014.
  9. Claire Dederer at The Atlantic, accessed September 9, 2014.
  10. Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble. New York: Alfred Knopf.
  11. Online version is titled "Fire Sermon is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".
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