Larissa MacFarquhar

American writer (born 1968)

Larissa MacFarquhar
Born	1968 (age 55–56) London, England
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Period	1998-present
Spouse	Philip Gourevitch
Relatives	Roderick MacFarquhar (father)

Larissa MacFarquhar (born 1968) is an American writer known for her profiles in The New Yorker.

She is the daughter of the sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar.^[1] She was born in London, and moved to the United States at the age of 16.^[2]

MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998^[3] and has written profiles on Barack Obama, Derek Parfit, Hilary Mantel, Robert Gottlieb, Richard Posner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chelsea Manning and Aaron Swartz, among others.^[4] Her 2015 book Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help explores the motivations of people who take altruism to extremes. She is married to the writer Philip Gourevitch.

Selected bibliography

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Books

MacFarquhar, Larissa (2016). Strangers Drowning : Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help. Penguin Books. ISBN 0143109782.

Essays and reporting

MacFarquhar, Larissa (Fall 1994). "Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Editing No. 1". Paris Review (132).
MacFarquhar, Larissa (December 10, 2001). "The Bench Burner". The New Yorker.
MacFarquhar, Larissa (September 5, 2011). "How to Be Good". The New Yorker.
MacFarquhar, Larissa (October 15, 2012). "The Dead Are Real". The New Yorker.
MacFarquhar, Larissa (March 3, 2013). "Requiem for a Dream". The New Yorker.
MacFarquhar, Larissa (April 2, 2018). "Mind expander : Andy Clark believes that your thinking isn't all in your head". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 7. pp. 62–73.^[5]

References

^ Perlez, Jane (February 12, 2019). "Roderick MacFarquhar, Eminent China Scholar, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
^ Wolf, David (October 17, 2015). "Larissa MacFarquhar interview: 'People think I'm a total freak for not using the first person'". The Guardian. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Larissa MacFarquhar: What is Family, What are Strangers?". Stanford Humanities. March 6, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Larissa MacFarquhar". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
^ Online version is titled "The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark".