Pretty One (Rosenfeld) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—December 31, 1969
• Where—New York, New York, USA
• Raised—Leona, New Jersey
• Education—Cornell University
• Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City


Lucinda Rosenfeld is an American writer and the author of four novels.

Her first novel, What She Saw in Roger Mancuso, Gunter Hopstock, Jason Barry Gold, Spitty Clark, Jack Geezo, Humphrey Fung, Claude Duvet, Bruce Bledstone, Kevin McFeeley, Arnold Allen, Pablo Miles, Anonymous 1-4, Nobody 5-8, Neil Schmertz, and Bo Pierce was published in 2000. The book follows the romantic travails of a girl named Phoebe Fine, beginning in elementary school and continuing into her mid-twenties. Each chapter revolves around (and is named after) a boy or man who played a role in Phoebe’s life. The book was excerpted in The New Yorker as a part of its Debut Fiction series (under the title, “The Male Gaze”).

In 2004 Rosenfeld published Why She Went Home , a sequel to What She Saw. . . The second novel centers around Phoebe’s return to her family’s suburban home at the age of thirty to care for her ailing mother and rethink her life’s goals.

Rosenfeld's third novel, I’m So Happy For You, published in 2009, is about competitive thirty-something best friends, Wendy Murman and Daphne Uberoff.

The Pretty Ones: A Novel about Sisters, published in 2013, centers on the rivalry among three sisters and their relationship with their controlling mother.

Rosenfeld's essays have appeared in: The New York Times Magazine, Creative Non-Fiction, New York magazine, Glamour and many other publications. Rosenfeld also wrote the "Friend or Foe" advice column for Slate.com from 2009 to 2012.

Personal
Rosenfeld grew up in Leonia, New Jersey, where she attended the Leonia Public Schools before going to the private Dwight-Englewood School for high school. At Cornell University, she majored in comparative literature.

Rosenfeld is married to economics writer John Cassidy of The New Yorker. They live in Brooklyn, New York and have two young daughters. (From Wikipedia.)