Abstract
Apopular author for nearly four decades, Anne Roiphe draws on her own personal and family history for her writings from her first novel Digging Out (1966), to her most recent memoir 1185 Park Avenue (1999). Attempting to balance feminism, motherhood, and Jewishness, her protagonists struggle to discover their identities and resolve the conflicts of modern Jewish American women.
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Levinson, M. (2007). “My Own Design”: Finding Identity in Anne Roiphe’s Writings. In: Avery, E. (eds) Modern Jewish Women Writers in America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604841_5
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