Lidia Yuknavitch

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lidia Yuknavitch
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jun 18, 1963(1963-06-18)
Age	61
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Lidia Yuknavitch Biography

Lidia Yuknavitch is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on June 18, 1963 in San Francisco, United States. Lidia Yuknavitch, born June 18, 1963 in Oregon, is an American writer and teacher. The Chronology of Water is her memoir. She also wrote the novels Dora: A Headcase and The Book of Joan. Her TED talk, “The Beauty of Being a Misfit”, has been viewed more than 3.2 million times. She also wrote the follow-up book, The Misfit’s Manifesto.

Dora: A Headcase is Yuknavitch’s novel about Dora, the subject of a well-known case study by Sigmund Fréud. The subject of the study had lost voice. Yuknavitch stated that she wanted Dora to regain her voice and “talk back” to Freud. Katherine Brooks optioned the book for a movie in 2014.

Random House published Yuknavitch’s first short story collection, Verge, on February 4, 2020. Yuknavitch read one of the stories, “Street Walker,” on the December 10, 2019, episode of the Lit Hub/Podglomerate Storybound podcast, accompanied by original musical composition from the band Whiston & Warmack.

Yuknavitch’s memoir, The Chronology of Water (2011), has gained a large following. A Huffington Post book review noted that the book keeps “keeps popping up” on social media and blogs two years after it was published. After talking with Chuck Palahniuk at the end of a meeting, she said that the book was a dare. Yuknavitch borrowed the title from a short story she wrote during a workshop with Diana Abu-Jaber. The book jacket’s cover photo shows a naked woman swimming in the water. Yuknavitch and her publisher decided to wrap the book with a “belly band” to cover the woman’s breasts. Yuknavitch wrote in The Rumpus about this decision.

Lidia Yuknavitch Net Worth

Lidia Yuknavitch is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lidia Yuknavitch 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After high school, Yuknavitch moved to Texas. She attended Austin Community College as a swimmer on a scholarship. While at college, she was a receptionist at University of Texas at Austin. Yuknavitch had hoped to qualify for the United States Olympic Swimming Team. However, her competitive swimming career was ended by the boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games at Moscow and her own drug abuse.

Yuknavitch was then Lidia Yukman. In 1987-1988, Yuknavitch collaborated with Ken Kesey’s novel-writing class at Oregon. The result was Caverns. Yuknavitch, a novelist group collectively called “O. U. Levon”, is often referred to as a graduate student, but at the time, he wasn’t actually in graduate school.

The Small Backs of Children, published in 2015, was praised by Kirkus Reviews, in which it was called a “brave and affecting novel.”

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Who is Lidia Yuknavitch Dating?

According to our records, Lidia Yuknavitch married to Andy Mingo. As of December 1, 2023, Lidia Yuknavitch’s is not dating anyone.

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Lidia Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lidia Yuknavitch celebrates birthday on June 18 of every year.

Where does Lidia Yuknavitch teach?

Yuknavitch teaches writing, literature, film, and women’s studies and is on the MFA faculty at Eastern Oregon University. She has also taught at Mt. Hood Community College.

Where is Lidia Yuknavitch from?

United States