Introduction
Adelle Waldman is an American novelist, columnist and blogger, known for her 2013 novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., and for her articles for Slate and Vogue magazines and the blog Gawker.
Early life
Adelle Waldman graduated from Brown University in 1998. She later attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Career
Waldman worked as a reporter at the New Haven Register, located in New Haven, Connecticut; and The Plain Dealer, located in Cleveland, Ohio, and wrote a column for the website of The Wall Street Journal. She has written book reviews and essays for Slate, The New Republic, Vogue.com, and The New York Observer, among others. While writing The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., she worked as an SAT tutor.
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was published in 2013. It follows Nate Piven, a writer living in Brooklyn, New York, and his romantic relationship with a woman named Hannah, whom Nate considers an intellectual match but with whom he finds other faults. Reviews were mixed. A translation into German (Das Liebesleben des Nathaniel P.) was published in June 2015.
Waldman later published, as a Kindle single on Amazon.com, a novella telling the same story from the point of view of Aurit, a female friend of Nate's.
Personal life
Her brother, Steve Randy Waldman, is a finance and economics blogger.