Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner is an American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Weiner was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, where her father was stationed as an army physician. The next year, her family moved to Simsbury, Connecticut, where Weiner spent her childhood. Her first novel, Good in Bed, is loosely based on her youngadult life like the main character, Cannie Shapiro, Weiners parents divorced when she was 16, and her mother came out as a lesbian at age 55. Weiner has said that she was one of only nine Jewish kids in her high school class of 400 at Simsbury High School. She entered Princeton University at the age ofand received her bachelor of arts summa cum laude in English in 1991, having studied with J. D. McClatchy, Ann Lauterbach, John McPhee, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates. Her first published story, Tour of Duty, appeared in Seventeen in 1992.

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