Jennifer Senior

American journalist

Jennifer Senior is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic and has been an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times since September 2018. Previously, she was a columnist and a book critic at the New York Times, and a staff writer for New York magazine.

In 2022, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing^[1] and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, both for the article "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind," published in The Atlantic in September 2021.^[2]

She is the author of the 2014 New York Times best-selling book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] She graduated from Princeton University, majoring in anthropology, in 1991.^[7]

She has written about her experience suffering from Long COVID: "Long COVID symptoms often change. This syndrome is wily, protean—imagine a mischief of mice moving through the walls of your house and laying waste to different bits of circuitry and infrastructure as they go."^[8]

References

^ "Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic". www.pulitzer.org. Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
^ Senior, Jennifer. "What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind". No. September 2021. The Atlantic. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
^ Solomon, Andrew (January 31, 2014). "Under Pressure". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 5, 2023 – via NYTimes.com.
^ Gallagher, Aileen (February 3, 2014). "Is Parenting Really All Joy and No Fun? A Happily Childless Reviewer Investigates Jennifer Senior's Book". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
^ Bellack, Marisa (2014-02-06). "Book Review: 'All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood' by Jennifer Senior". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
^ "All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior". www.publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on 2023-04-26. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
^ "Tiger of the Week: Author Jennifer Senior '91". 21 January 2016. Archived from the original on 2023-02-15. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
^ Senior, Jennifer (February 14, 2023). "What Not to Ask Me About My Long COVID". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 15, 2023. Retrieved February 15, 2023.