Caryl Rivers

Caryl Rivers is an American novelist and journalist.[1] Her 1984 novel Virgins was a New York Times Best Seller and sold millions of copies around the world.[2][3] Her articles have appeared in major publications such as The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.[3][4][5][6]

Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University.[3] In 1979 she and historian Howard Zinn were among a group of Boston University faculty members who defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.[7] In 2008 Rivers was awarded The Helen Thomas for Lifetime Achievement which is awarded to an individual for a lifetime of contribution to the journalism profession.[8]

Rivers is also the author of several other books including the 1986 sequel to Virgins, Girls Forever Brave and True,[9] Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs[10] and Camelot, a novel set during the Kennedy administration.[11]