Lizzie Skurnick’s most recent work is The Special Students: My Great-Grandfather at Harvard, His Mysterious Death, and The World of the Talented Tenth, a forthcoming mystery and history of Black scholars in the Ivy Leagues. She is the editor of a recent anthology, Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women, and the author of That Should Be a Word: A Much-Needed Lexicon for the Modern Era, and Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We’ll Never Stop Reading. As the founding editor of Lizzie Skurnick Books, she has reissued dozens of YA classics. She’s a frequent contributor to The New York Times, NPR, PBS, Elle, Jezebel, and many other publications. In another life, she wrote for the Sweet Valley High series. Lizzie lives in Jersey City and teaches at NYU.
Books
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Pretty Bitches
On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women
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That Should Be a Word
That Should Be a Word A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World
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Shelf Discovery
The Teen Classics We’ll Never Stop Reading
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Check-In
A collection of “wry humor and libidinous musings”
Contributions
Recent Work
Appearances
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American Masters: Harper Lee
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: From Prairier to Page
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Feisty. Ambitious. Lucky. Female Writers On The Words That Undermine Women
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Harper Lee’s Legacy
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Being Royal While Black
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Single Mothers By Choice
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How to care for yourself while taking care of others
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The Circumcision Episode
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Did The Cat Eat Your Gymsuit? Then These Books Are For You