| LC control no. | no2016085611 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Heffernan, Virginia, 1969- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1969-08-08 |
| Place of birth | Hanover (N.H.) |
| Field of activity | Television criticism Internet |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Journalists Editors |
| Found in | Heffernan, Virginia. Magic and loss, 2016: title page (Virginia Heffernan), back jacket flap (Virginia Heffernan is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine. She began writing for the Times in 2003--first as a television critic in the Arts section, then as an Internet columnist at the Sunday Magazine. The coauthor (with Mike Albo) of the comic novel The Underminer, she has been an editor at Harper's and Talk magazines and has written for the New Yorker, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Backchannel, The Message, and Slate, where she was that magazine's first television critic. She has a PhD in English from Harvard.) Wikipedia, June 24, 2016: Virginia Heffernan (Virginia Heffernan (born August 8, 1969) is an American journalist and cultural critic. She has worked as a staff writer for The New York Times--first as a TV critic, then as a magazine columnist, and then as an opinion writer. She has also worked as a senior editor for Harper's, a founding editor of Talk, a TV critic for Slate, a fact checker for The New Yorker and a national correspondent for Yahoo News. Her most recent book, Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet ... Heffernan is known as a playful, stylish and erudite writer; in 2014 Ben Yagoda in the Chronicle of Higher Education named her among his top candidates for "best living writer of English prose", and she has been called "one of the mothers of the Internet. Virginia Heffernan was born in Hanover, New Hampshire ... Heffernan lives in Brooklyn Heights ... Born: Virginia Page Heffernan August 8, 1969 (age 46) Hanover, New Hampshire, United States ...) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Heffernan> |
| Associated language | eng |
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