Amanda Filipacchi was born in Paris and educated in both in France and in the US Amanda Filipacchi is the author of four novels, Nude Men, Vapor, Love Creeps, and The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty.
10 Facts About Amanda Filipacchi
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Amanda Filipacchi has been writing since the age of thirteen and completed three unpublished novels in her teenage years.
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Amanda Filipacchi has been living in New York since she was 17.
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Amanda Filipacchi attended Hamilton College, from which she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing.
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In 1990, Amanda Filipacchi enrolled in Columbia University's MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis which she later turned into her first published novel, Nude Men.
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In 1992, when Amanda Filipacchi was 24, a time shortly before her graduation, her agent, Melanie Jackson, sold Nude Men to Nan Graham at Viking Press.
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In 2005, Amanda Filipacchi was invited to participate in the 2005 Saint-Amour literary festival, a 10-city tour through Belgium.
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Amanda Filipacchi stated in a follow-up piece that editors had targeted her Wikipedia biography page in retaliation for her criticism.
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Andrew Leonard of Salon described this as "revenge editing" and supported his description of the event by quoting combative remarks about Amanda Filipacchi made by the primary user involved, who was later revealed to be writer Robert Clark Young.
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Amanda Filipacchi later wrote an additional article in The Atlantic, rebutting media stories that attributed the recategorization of female novelists to the work of a single editor, and listed seven different users who were responsible for recategorizing the seventeen women writers mentioned in her op-ed.