Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, Intuition, was published in 2006. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.
Goodman was raised a Conservative Jew in Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Punahou School in 1985. Goodman then went on to Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. degree and met her husband, David Karger. Both were regulars at Harva...
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Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, Intuition, was published in 2006. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.
Goodman was raised a Conservative Jew in Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Punahou School in 1985. Goodman then went on to Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. degree and met her husband, David Karger. Both were regulars at Harvard Hillel, and prayed in Harvard Hillel Orthodox Minyan. They then went on to do graduate work at Stanford University, where Goodman earned a Ph.D. degree in English literature. Her mother, the late Madeline Goodman, was a genetics and women's studies professor then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s . Her father, Lenn E. Goodman, is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt. Goodman's younger sister, Paula Fraenkel, is an oncologist. Fraenkel's...
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