Amanda Filipacchi

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|10|10|mf=yes}}{{citation |title=Amanda Filipacchi |work=Contemporary Authors Online |location=Detroit |publisher=Gale |year=2006}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

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| occupation = Novelist

| nationality = American, French

| education = Hamilton College (BA)
Columbia University

| period = 1993–present

| genre = Literary fiction

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| parents = Daniel Filipacchi, Sondra Peterson

| movement = Postmodern

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| website = {{URL|http://www.AmandaFilipacchi.com}}

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Amanda Filipacchi ({{IPAc-en|f|ɪ|l|ɪ|ˈ|p|ɑː|k|ɪ}}; born October 10, 1967) is an American novelist. She was born in Paris and educated in both in France and in the U.S. She is the author of four novels, Nude Men (1993), Vapor (1999), Love Creeps (2005), and The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty (2015). Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Aamanda+filipacchi&fq=&dblist=638&fc=ln:_25&qt=show_more_ln%3A |publisher=WorldCat |title=Amanda Filipacchi |access-date=May 27, 2013}}

Early life and education

Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France (where she attended the American School of Paris in St. CloudArdisson, Thierry. [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf9eg8_interview-amanda-filipacchi_news# interview Amanda Filipacchi], DailyMotion, INA.fr, putative broadcast date October 17, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2013. See also her earlier "[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf8nqq_anti-portrait-chinois-d-amanda-fili_news anti-portrait chinois]" and her deft replies to Ardisson's verbal challenges.) and in the U.S. She is the daughter of former model Sondra Peterson and Daniel Filipacchi, chairman emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias.{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vScAAAAAMBAJ&q=amanda+filipacchi |title=Brief Lives: Skin Deep |last=Hoban |first=Phoebe |date=January 14, 1993 |work=New York |page=30 |access-date=April 27, 2013}} She has been writing since the age of thirteen and completed three unpublished novels in her teenage years. She has been living in New York since she was 17.{{cite web |title="Bio" page |url=http://www.amandafilipacchi.com/ |work=amandafilipacchi.com |access-date=April 29, 2013}} She attended Hamilton College, from which she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. At age 20, she tried her hand at non-fiction writing at Rolling Stone magazine. In 1990, 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.

Career

In 1992, when Filipacchi was 24, a time shortly before her graduation, her agent, Melanie Jackson, sold Nude Men to Nan Graham at Viking Press. The novel was later translated into ten languagesIncluding German, French, Slovak, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, Italian, Hebrew, Swedish, and Russian. {{cite web |title=Records in Index Translationum database |url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a |work=Index Translationum |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=April 28, 2013}} and was anthologized in The Best American Humor 1994 (published by Simon & Schuster).{{cite book |page=[https://archive.org/details/bestamericanhumo00mosh/page/10 10] |title=Best American Humor 1994 |last=Waldoks |first=Moshe |year=1994 |publisher=Touchstone |isbn=0-671-89940-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanhumo00mosh/page/10}}

Filipacchi's second and third novels, Vapor (1999) and Love Creeps (2005, a novel about obsessive love{{cite news |url=http://www.parismatch.com/Culture-Match/Livres/Actu/Deux-variations-sur-le-meme-t-aime.-70156/ |title=Amanda Filipacchi: Deux Variations sur la Meme T'Aime |last=Dupont |first=Pepita |date=July 4, 2006 |work=Paris Match |language=fr |access-date=April 27, 2013}} and stalking respectively{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/19/new__recommended/ |title=New & Recommended |date=June 19, 2005 |work=Boston Globe |access-date=April 27, 2013}}), were also translated into multiple languages.Love Creeps has been translated into French, Polish, Dutch, and Korean. Vapor was published in French, Italian, and Polish. {{cite web |title=Records in Index Translationum database |url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a |work=Index Translationum |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=April 28, 2013}} {{cite book |title=Love Creeps |publisher=WorldCat |oclc=57429819}} In 2005, Filipacchi was invited to participate in the 2005 Saint-Amour literary festival, a 10-city tour through Belgium.{{cite news |title=Amanda Filipacchi. Ecrivain française |url=http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/amanda-filipacchi-23223.php |work=Evene |access-date=May 27, 2013}}

{{external media

| audio1 = [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2006/jul/24/love-creeps/ Interview with Amanda Filipacchi on Love Creeps], The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC}}

Reviewers have called Filipacchi "a prodigious postfeminist talent",{{cite news |title=Vapor |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7867-0617-4 |access-date=April 29, 2013 |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=March 29, 1999 |format=unsigned review |quote=Her novel showcases a prodigious postfeminist talent.}} and a "lovely comic surrealist".{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/books/plum-s-tarts.html?pagewanted=2 |title=Plum's Tarts |last=Sicha |first=Choire |date=April 18, 2004 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 30, 2013}} The Boston Globe described her writing style as "reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark ... brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous."{{Cite news |title=Exploring the slippery nature of desire |work=Boston Globe |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=June 12, 2005 |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/12/exploring_the_slippery_nature_of_desire/?page=full}} Love Creeps (referred to in a review by Alexis Soloski in The Village Voice as having "oddball situations and merrily acidic dialogue"{{cite news |last=Soloski |first=Alexis |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-31/books/page-burners/ |title=Page-Burners |date=May 31, 2005 |work=The Village Voice |access-date=April 30, 2013}}) was one of The Village Voice's top 25 books of the year,{{Cite news |title=Top Shelf 2005 |work=The Village Voice |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=December 6, 2005 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-12-06/books/top-shelf-2005/full/}} and was included in the syllabus of a course on the comic novel in Columbia University's graduate creative writing program.{{cite news |last=Park |first=Ed |title=Comic Novels |url=http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/3892 |work=Bookforum |date=May 20, 2009 |access-date=May 27, 2013}}{{cite web |title=What Ed Park's Students Are Reading |date=March 24, 2009 |url=http://bookculture.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/what-ed-parks-students-are-reading/ |publisher=Book Culture |access-date=May 27, 2013}}

In August 2013, Filipacchi sold her novel, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty, to Norton. According to the publisher, the novel deals with two women going to elaborate lengths to find love.{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/58843-book-deals-august-26-2013.html |title=Book Deals: Week of August 26, 2013 |last=Deahl |first=Rachel |date=August 26, 2013 |work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=August 26, 2013}} Bustle and HuffPost included it in lists of the most anticipated books of 2015.{{cite web |last1=Turits |first1=Meredith |title=12 of the Most Anticipated Books of 2015, aka the Titles We Can't Get Our Hands On Soon Enough |url=http://www.bustle.com/articles/48155-12-of-the-most-anticipated-books-of-2015-aka-the-titles-we-cant-get-our-hands |website=Bustle.com |date=December 15, 2014 |access-date=December 16, 2014}}{{cite web |last1=Crum |first1=Maddie |title=2015 Books We Can't Wait To Read |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/10/2015-books_n_6272070.html |website=HuffPost |date=December 10, 2014 |access-date=December 16, 2014}}

= Wikipedia op-ed =

{{further|Wikipedia controversies#2013|Criticism of Wikipedia#Gender bias}}

In an April 2013 op-ed for The New York Times, Filipacchi criticized Wikipedia for moving female writers into subcategories like "American women novelists" and out of general categories such as "American novelists", calling it a "small, easily fixable thing" that hindered women's equality. She suggested that people may use Wikipedia categories "to get ideas for whom to hire, or honor, or read" and unquestioningly use the "American novelists" list.{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |title=Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=April 24, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html}} Other writers and commentators echoed her concerns about the perceived minimization of female novelists.{{cite news |last=Rawlinson |first=Kevin |title=Wikipedia in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikipedia-in-sexism-row-after-labelling-harper-lee-and-others-women-novelists-while-men-are-american-novelists-8590632.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430065935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikipedia-in-sexism-row-after-labelling-harper-lee-and-others-women-novelists-while-men-are-american-novelists-8590632.html |archive-date=April 30, 2013 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=April 28, 2013 |newspaper=The Independent |date=April 26, 2013}}{{cite news |last=Zandt |first=Deanna |title=Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist – That's Why It Needs You |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/ |access-date=April 28, 2013 |newspaper=Forbes |date=April 26, 2013}} In a follow-up piece, Filipacchi stated that editors had targeted her Wikipedia biography page in retaliation for her criticism,{{cite news |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |title=Wikipedia's Sexism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism.html|access-date=April 28, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 27, 2013}} which Andrew Leonard covered in more detail in Salon. Leonard quoted several combative remarks made by the primary proponent of "revenge editing" who was later revealed to be writer Robert Clark Young.{{cite web |last=Leonard |first=Andrew |title=Wikipedia's shame |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/wikipedias_shame |access-date=April 30, 2013 |work=Salon |date=April 30, 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/revenge_ego_and_the_corruption_of_wikipedia/ |title=Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia |last=Leonard |first=Andrew |date=May 17, 2013 |work=Salon |access-date=May 20, 2013}} Filipacchi later wrote in The Atlantic that the separate categorization of female novelists was not the work of a single editor, listing seven involved users.{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/sexism-on-wikipedia-is-not-the-work-of-a-single-misguided-editor/275405/ |title=Sexism on Wikipedia Is Not the Work of 'a Single Misguided Editor' |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |date=April 30, 2013 |work=The Atlantic |access-date=May 3, 2013}} Three months later, she wrote a personal essay for The Wall Street Journal, which more humorously described the aftermath of the controversy, discussing how she became engrossed in discussions on Wikipedia and criticism site Wikipediocracy.{{cite news |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/10/my-strange-addiction-wikipedia/ |title=My Strange Addiction: Wikipedia |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |date=July 10, 2013 |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=July 20, 2013}}

Works

=Books=

{{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=Nude Men |title-link=Nude Men |year=1993 |publisher=Viking/Penguin |isbn=9780140178920}}
{{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=Vapor |title-link=Vapor (novel) |year=1999 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |isbn=9780786706174}}
{{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=Love Creeps |title-link=Love Creeps |year=2006 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780312340322}}
{{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty |title-link=The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty |year=2015 |publisher=W. W. Norton |isbn=9780393243871}}

=Other publications=

{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |title=Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists (op-ed) |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=April 24, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html}}
{{cite magazine |last1=Filipacchi |first1=Amanda |title=The Looks You're Born With and the Looks You're Given |url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/looks-youre-born-looks-youre-given |access-date=December 16, 2014 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=December 12, 2014}}
{{cite news |last1=Filipacchi |first1=Amanda |title=How To Pose Like a Man |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/how-to-pose-like-a-man.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 6, 2015}}