Profiles

Outspoken and self-assured, Arianna Huffington describes herself as “a former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist.” Although a registered Republican, Huffington ran for governor of California…

Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants was named the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year by the American Booksellers Association in the adult fiction category and landed on the New…

In Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, feminist and author Rebecca Walker discusses wrestling with the decision to become a parent, writing memoirs, the unique sensibilities of…

Nicole Gregory: In Things to Bring, S#!t to Do . . . and other inventories of anxiety, you reveal the history of your inner life as written in the lists…

Karen DeGroot Carter: Do you consider writing something you struggle to do despite the constraints of parenting, something you do that enhances your ability to parent, or something that provides…

Kimberly Greene Angle: Tell me how you came to consider yourself a writer. Amy Hudock: Strangely, I never defined myself as a writer even though I was writing, both creatively…

Jessica Jernigan: What made you decide to put this anthology together? Jessica Berger Gross: I’d always wanted to be a mother and in the months it took me to get…

Sarah Weld: Which came first – your Literary Mama “Single Mom Seeking” columns or your book? Rachel Sarah: The columns came first. Roughly half of the book’s outline was based…

Linda Rigel: One of your two daughters, Lisa See, is a writer. (I’ve just started reading her book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; so far, it’s lovely). In fact,…

HELAINE OLEN: Why did you decide to revisit the subject of mother loss? HOPE EDELMAN: At the very end of my second pregnancy, I was put on partial bed-rest. I…

Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser: How did you become interested in the subject matter for The Baby Business? Debora Spar: I came to this book in a somewhat odd way. My last…