Books
MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE is a cultural critic and prize-winning writer of nonfiction, an internationally known age critic, an essayist, feminist, and activist. Her latest book is Aged by Culture, chosen as a "Noteworthy Book" of the year by the Christian Science Monitor. It was nominated for a Pulitzer and received an Honorable Mention for the Myers Book Award, given by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife won the Emily Toth award in 1998 for the best feminist book on American popular culture. Her essay, "The Contagion of Euphoria," won the Daniel Singer Millennial Prize 2008.
Her essays, frequently cited as notable in Best American Essays, have appeared in many literary quarterlies, including Kenyon Review and Yale Review; and in scholarly journals like Feminist Studies, Representations, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. She has been the recipient of NEH, ACLS, and Bunting Fellowships. Quotations from her books will appear in The Quotable Woman: The First Five Thousand Years. She is a member of PEN-America and a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.
Gullette has written for the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Ms. magazine, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, womensenews, American Prospect, and American Scholar. She has been interviewed on "Brian Lehrer," CultureShocks, "The Connection," RadioNation, WBAI, and "To the Best of Our Knowledge."
