Elizabeth Weil is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. Weil wrote for the New York Times for nearly 20 years, during which she also wrote freelance for a number of other magazines. She has also written two nonfiction books and co-authored two nonfiction books. Her journalism has received many accolades, including a New York Press Club Award and a GLAAD Award. Her biography The Girl Who Smiled Beads has received such accolades as the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction. From March 2020 until December 2021, Weil wrote for ProPublica. She is now a features writer for New York Magazine.[1] Weil teaches part-time at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Personal life
Weil graduated from Yale University. At present, she lives in San Francisco, California with her husband (Daniel Duane), with whom she shares two daughters.[2] Their daughter Hannah Duane is also a writer who has been published in HuffPost[3][4] and is a graduate of Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts.[5]
Weil's work has also been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing, Best American Food Writing, and America's Next Generation of Great Women Journalists.
No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried To Make It Better. was published February 7, 2012 by Scribner.
They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus
They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship was initially published in 2002, then republished on October 6, 2010, by Randomhouse Publishing Group.
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