Age, Biography and Wiki
| Birth Day | June 16, 1938 |
| Birth Place | Lockport, NY |
| Age | 85 YEARS OLD |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Net worth: $160 billion (2024)
About
American author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, poems, and essays. She received the National Book Award for her 1969 novel, them, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000).
Before Fame
She began writing at age fourteen and was the first in her family to finish high school. She graduated at the top of her class at Syracuse University in 1960 and published her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, four years later.
Trivia
She received the 1967 O. Henry Award for her short story, In the Region of Ice. A decade later, she began teaching creative writing at Princeton University.
Family Life
She married Raymond J. Smith in 1961. Smith died suddenly of pneumonia in 2008, ending the couple's nearly four decade-long marriage. In 2009, she married Charles Gross.
Associated With
She dedicated her serial killer-themed short story, Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?, to folk singer/songwriter Bob Dylan.
