19 Facts About Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt was born on October 14,1949 and is an American poet, essayist and critic.

Katha Pollitt is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry.

Katha Pollitt's writing focuses on political and social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, and poverty.

Katha Pollitt's father was a lawyer and her mother was an agent involved in real estate.

Katha Pollitt's parents encouraged Pollitt to pursue her interest in poetry.

Katha Pollitt's father was Protestant and her mother was Jewish.

Katha Pollitt is best known for her bimonthly column "Subject to Debate" in The Nation magazine.

Katha Pollitt's writing has featured in publications such as Ms.

Katha Pollitt's poetry has been republished in many anthologies and magazines, including The New Yorker and the 2006 Oxford Book of American Poetry.

Katha Pollitt has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group, CNN, Dateline NBC and the BBC.

Much of Katha Pollitt's writing is in defense of contemporary feminism and other forms of identity politics and tackles perceived misimpressions by critics from across the political spectrum; other frequent topics include abortion, the media, US foreign policy, the politics of poverty, and human rights movements around the world.

Katha Pollitt coined the phrase "The Smurfette Principle" in 1991, in which she typifies the cartoon character Smurfette as the "lone female" in a group of males who is often a stereotypic figure.

On May 20,2020, Katha Pollitt said she would vote for Joe Biden in the presidential election, even "if he boiled babies and ate them".

In 1994, Katha Pollitt published Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, a collection of nineteen essays that first appeared in The Nation and other journals.

In 2007, Katha Pollitt published Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories, a collection of personal essays.

The first book Katha Pollitt published was a collection of poetry called Antarctic Traveler, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Katha Pollitt's argument is built upon the notion that abortion is a "positive social good" and "an essential option for women".

Katha Pollitt says abortion needs to be looked at as "back into the lives and bodies of women, but in the lives of men, and families, and the children those women already have or will have".

Katha Pollitt argues that the issue brings about how we discuss menstrual cycles with young girls and the number of resources we have available for families, both single parent and two-parent.