Katha Pollitt
Writer, editor
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- Date of Birth
- 10/14/1949 (60 years old)
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, NY
- Undergrad
- Harvard University
- Graduate
- Columbia University
- Neighborhood
- Upper West Side
- Filed Under
- Media
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Who
A gadfly writer and poet known for her pieces on sex, gender, and feminism, Pollitt is a longtime editor at the Nation and a regular contributor of poems and thought pieces to left-leaning publications like Mother Jones, the New Yorker, and Harper's. Her first husband was Randy Cohen, the writer of the "Ethicist" column for the New York Times Magazine.
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