The next year, her family moved to Simsbury, Connecticut, where Jennifer Weiner spent her childhood.
13 Facts About Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner died of a crack cocaine overdose in 2008.
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Jennifer Weiner has said that she was "one of only nine Jewish kids in her high school class of 400" at Simsbury High School.
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At Princeton, Jennifer Weiner studied with JD McClatchy, Ann Lauterbach, John McPhee, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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Jennifer Weiner's first published story, "Tour of Duty," appeared in Seventeen in 1992.
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Jennifer Weiner continued to write for the Inquirer, freelancing on the side for Mademoiselle, Seventeen, and other publications, until after her first novel, Good in Bed, was published in 2001.
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Jennifer Weiner's sixth novel, Best Friends Forever, was a No 1 New York Times bestseller and made Publishers Weekly's list of the longest-running bestsellers of the year.
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Jennifer Weiner's writing on gender and culture appears frequently in The New York Times.
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Jennifer Weiner has been a vocal critic of what she sees as the male bias in the publishing industry and the media, alleging that books by male authors are better received than those written by women, that is, reviewed more often and more highly praised by critics.
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In November 2019, Jennifer Weiner participated in the harassment and abuse of Brooke Nelson, a college student who was mentioned in her local newspaper as saying she thought that author Sarah Dessen's YA novels were not suitable for the Common Read program run by Northern State University, Aberdeen, and that she had advocated for the inclusion of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson's memoir, Just Mercy, instead.
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Jennifer Weiner later stated that she had "zero regrets" regarding these remarks.
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Jennifer Weiner made her TV debut on The Tony Danza Show in 2005, reappearing in 2006.
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Jennifer Weiner made a cameo appearance as herself in the Younger episode "The Jade Crusade" in 2016.