Naomi Wolf
- January 4, 2024
- Novelist
Quick Facts
Full Name | Naomi Wolf |
Occupation | Novelist |
Date Of Birth | Nov 12, 1962(1962-11-12) |
Age | 62 |
Birthplace | San Francisco |
Country | United States |
Birth City | California |
Horoscope | Scorpio |
Naomi Wolf Biography
Name | Naomi Wolf |
Birthday | Nov 12 |
Birth Year | 1962 |
Place Of Birth | San Francisco |
Home Town | California |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Scorpio |
Spouse | David Shipley |
Children(s) | Rosa Shipley, Joseph Shipley |
Naomi Wolf is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on November 12, 1962 in San Francisco, California, United States. Feminist author best known for 1990’s The Beauty Myth – How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women, and 2007’s The End of America – Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.
In 2004, she accused She accused Harold Bloom – her professor at Yale – of sexual encroachment in 2004, but the University didn’t act on her claims., her Yale professor, of sexual encroachment. However, the University did not respond to her allegations.
In her New York Times review, Claire Dederer suggested it was inappropriate to consider “Wolf as a political theorist, and instead call her a memoirist. She does her best writing when she’s observing her own life.” Her capability as a memoirist is not “self-indulgent. It seems vital, and in a sense radical, in the tradition of 1970’s feminists who sought to speak to every aspect of women’s lives.”
Wolf attended Yale University receiving her Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1984. From 1985 to 1987, she was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford. Her initial period at Oxford University was difficult for Wolf as she experienced “raw sexism, overt snobbery and casual antisemitism”. Her writing became so personal and subjective that her tutor advised against submitting her doctoral thesis. Wolf told interviewer Rachel Cooke, writing for The Observer, in 2019: “My subject didn’t exist. I wanted to write feminist theory, and I kept being told by the dons there was no such thing.” Her feminist writing at this time formed the basis of her first book, The Beauty Myth.
With David Shipley, her ex-husband, she has two children named Rosa & Joseph.
Naomi Wolf Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Novelist |
House | Living in own house. |
Naomi Wolf is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Naomi Wolf 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In 1984, she received a Bachelor’s degree in English literature at Yale University. She then became a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford.
Her 2012 book Vagina – A New Biography was highly controversial, with feminist critics even questioning its intent.
Naomi R. Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American liberal progressive feminist author, journalist, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
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In an October 1995 article for The New Republic Wolf was critical of contemporary pro-choice positions, arguing that the movement had “developed a lexicon of dehumanization” and urged feminists to accept abortion as a form of homicide and defend the procedure within the ambiguity of this moral conundrum. She continued, “Abortion should be legal; it is sometimes even necessary. Sometimes the mother must be able to decide that the fetus, in its full humanity, must die.”
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Wolf was involved in Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election bid, brainstorming with the president’s team about ways to reach female voters. During Al Gore’s bid for the presidency in the 2000 election, Wolf was hired as a consultant to target female voters, reprising her role in the Clinton campaign. Wolf’s ideas and participation in the Gore campaign generated considerable media coverage and criticism. According to a report by Michael Duffy in Time, Wolf was paid a salary of $15,000 (by November 1999, $5,000) per month “in exchange for advice on everything from how to win the women’s vote to shirt-and-tie combinations.” This article was the original source of the assertion that Wolf was responsible for Gore’s “three-buttoned, earth-toned look.”