Jennifer Weiner

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Jennifer Weiner (born March 28, 1970) is an American writer, television producer, and journalist.

She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Her debut novel, published in 2001, was Good in Bed.

Her novel In Her Shoes (2002) was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine.

Background and education

Weiner was born to a Jewish family in DeRidder, Louisiana, where her father was stationed as an army physician. The next year, her family (including a younger sister and two brothers) moved to Simsbury, Connecticut, where Weiner spent her childhood.

When Weiner was 16, her father abandoned the family. He died of a crack cocaine overdose in 2008.

Her first novel, Good in Bed, is loosely based on her young-adult life: like the main character, Cannie Shapiro, Weiner's parents divorced when she was 16, and her mother came out as a lesbian at age 55.

Weiner has said that she was "one of only nine Jewish kids in her high school class of 400" at Simsbury High School. She entered Princeton University at the age of 17 and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in English in 1991 after completing an 86-page-long senior thesis titled "'Never Far From Mother --' On the Uses of Essentialism in Novels and Films."

At Princeton, Weiner studied with J. D. McClatchy, Ann Lauterbach, John McPhee, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates. Her first published story, "Tour of Duty," appeared in Seventeen in 1992.

Personal life

Weiner married attorney Adam Bonin in October 2001. They have two children and separated in 2010. On March 19, 2016, she married writer Bill Syken.

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Career

Weiner retired from college and founded "Generation XIII," the student newspaper at State College, Pennsylvania, where she supervised the education beat and wrote a weekly column titled "Generation X." She went on to Lexington, Kentucky, and later wrote her "Generation XIII" column before landing as a staff reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer. She continued to write for the Inquirer, freelancing on the side for Mademoiselle, Seventeen, and other publications, until her first book, Good in Bed, was published in 2001. By 20th Century Fox, Cameron Diaz' second book, In Her Shoes (2002), was turned into a film starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine. Best Friends Forever, her sixth book, was a No. 1 in the United States. 1 New York Times bestseller and 1 on Publishers Weekly's list of the year's top-running bestsellers. She is the author of nine best-selling books, including eight novels and a collection of short stories, with 11 million copies in print in 36 countries to date. Simon & Schuster's book The Next Best Thing was published in July 2012. In The New York Times, her essays on gender and culture appear often.

Weiner, a co-creator and executive producer of the (now-cancelled) ABC Family sitcom State of Georgia, is a woman who writes fiction, and she is best known for "live-tweeting" episodes of reality dating series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. "Shaping the conversation" was TIME's top-ranked Twitter feeds in 2011. She is a self-described feminist.

Weiner has been a vocal critic of what she sees as the male bias in publishing and media, arguing that male authors' books are more well received than those written by women, which has been reviewed more often and more widely by commentators. "I think it's a very old and deeply embedded double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L," she said in 2010. In short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's interest." ... I think it's irrefutable that when it comes to selecting favorites, the Times chooses white people. "There are gatekeepers who say chick lit doesn't deserve notice," she said in a 2011 interview with Wall Street Journal blog Speakeasy, but then they examine Stephen King." Weiner criticized "overcoverage" in 2010 when Jonathan Franzen's book Freedom was released to critical acclaim and extensive media coverage, including a cover story in TIME, igniting a discussion over whether the media's treatment of Franzen was an example of entrenched misogym within the literary establishment. Although Weiner was chastised by other female writers for her writing, a 2011 report by VIDA bore out several of her assertions, and Franzen himself agreed with her: "I agree to a large degree." When a male writer simply writes about family, his book is considered seriously, because: "A man has actually expressed some concern in the emotional texture of daily life," the author says, unlike a woman, when it is called chick-lit. There is a long-running gender divide in what goes into the canon, but you do need to identify the canon."

Weiner has expressed ambival against the word "chick lit," emphasizing the genre as a pejorative term for commercial women's fiction while condemning its use as a pejorative term. "I'm not crazy about the brand," she said, "because I suspect it comes from a built-in assumption that you've written nothing more significant or significant than a slew of cotton candy." As a result, scholars react in a certain way without ever reading the books." Weiner wrote an essay about a Melissa Bank novel in 2008 on her blog. "The more I think about the study, the more I think about the increasing pronounced gap between female writers and chick lit writers, the more it seems that it is a grown-up version of the smart versus beautiful game from years past; like so much jockeying for position in the cafeteria and shaming the girls who are younger/sluttier/stupider than you to make yourself feel more secure about your own position in the pecking order."

In November 2019, Weiner, a college student who was quoted in a local newspaper, said she regretted author Sarah Dessen's YA books were not suitable for the Common Read program at Northern State University, Aberdeen, and that she had argued for the inclusion of civil rights advocate Bryan Stevenson's book, Just Mercy instead. Weiner characterized Nelson's resistance to Dessen's admission in the Common Reads initiative as "catty and cruel" against young women, comparing it to coverage of gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's repeated sexual assaults on young people in a series of since-deleted tweets. She later stated that she had "zero regrets" regarding her remarks. Weiner reportedly regretted her behavior after the news had been announced in Jezebel, The Washington Post, and Slate.

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