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American writer (born 1975) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rebecca Traister (born 1975) is an American author and journalist. Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and its website The Cut, and a contributing editor at Elle magazine.[1] Traister wrote for The New Republic from February 2014 through June 2015.[1][2]
Rebecca Traister | |
|---|---|
Traister at the JWA Making Trouble/Making History luncheon, 2012 | |
| Born | 1975 (age 48–49) |
| Education | Northwestern University (BA) |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Notable works | Good and Mad Big Girls Don't Cry All the Single Ladies |
| Spouse |
Darius Wadia (m. 2011) |
| Children | 2 |
Born in 1975 to a Jewish father and Baptist mother, Traister was raised on a farm.[3] She attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia and Northwestern University. After college, she moved to New York City.[3]
Traister's first book, the non-fiction Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women (2010), was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010,[4] and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2012.[5]
Traister's second non-fiction book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016),[6] a New York Times best-seller, has been referred to as a followup to the first. Gillian Whitemarch of The New York Times described it as a "well-researched, deeply informative examination of women’s bids for independence, spanning centuries."[7]
In 2018, Traister published another book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger.[8]
Traister received a "Making Trouble / Making History Award" from the Jewish Women's Archive in 2012 at its annual luncheon. Longtime activist Gloria Steinem was the presenter.[9][10]
In 2012, Traister received a Mirror Award for Best Commentary in Digital Media for two essays that appeared in Salon ("'30 Rock' Takes on Feminist Hypocrisy–and Its Own," and "Seeing 'Bridesmaids' is a Social Responsibility"), and one that was published in The New York Times ("The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live The Soap Opera!").[11]
In 2011, Traister married Darius Wadia, a public defender in Brooklyn. The couple lives in New York, with their two daughters.[12][13][14]
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