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Judith Newman

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Judith Newman is the author of the bestseller To Siri With Love..

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Judith Newman is the author of the bestseller To Siri With Love:  A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines, a collection of illuminating stories about life with a fourteen-year-old boy with autism. The New York Times called it “an uncommonly riotous and moving book…with whipsaws of brilliant zingers and heart punches.” The Washington Post called Newman “a gifted personal essayist, her warmth and wit recalling Nora Ephron’s.” Previous books include You Make Me Feel Like An Unnatural Woman:  Diary of a New (Old) Mother, about her adventures in the world of infertility.

In addition to books and personal essays, Judith writes for magazines about entertainment, science, business, beauty, health, and popular culture.  Her work and celebrity interviews are featured in a variety of publications from The New York Times and Vanity Fair to Prevention, AARP, and National Geographic.  She regularly reviews books for People and the Times, and writes the “Help Desk” column in The New York Times Book Review. She is a contributing editor for Allure and Prevention, and has been widely anthologized. She joins Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth in never having won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her awards do, however, include the coveted FiFi for distinguished work in perfume journalism.

Judith graduated from Wesleyan University and has a Masters in Literature from Columbia. She and her husband, the former opera singer John Snowdon, live in New York City with their twin sons and a lot of chaos.

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Kill Me Now

His Brother’s Keeper

Work It Out, Baby

To Siri With Love

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Robert Rugg & Judith Newman in conversation
#570 Judith Newman discusses her book, To Siri With Love

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