Amy Sohn

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Amy Sohn is a Brooklyn-based author,{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Amy+Sohn&dblist=638&fq=dt%3Abks&qt=facet_dt%3A |title=Amy Sohn |access-date=May 11, 2010 |publisher=WorldCat.org }} columnist and screenwriter. Her first two novels were Run Catch Kiss (1999) and My Old Man (2004), both published by Simon & Schuster, and a companion guide to television's Sex and the City, Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (Pocket Books).

Early life

She graduated from Hunter College High School in 1991 and Brown University with an A.B. in 1995.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

Career

Sohn's novels include Prospect Park West (2009){{cite web |author=Steven Kurtz |access-date=August 17, 2012 |date=September 9, 2009 |title=At Home with Amy Sohn: A Park Slope Novel Seems a Little Too Real |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/garden/10sohn.html?pagewanted=all}} and its sequel Motherland (2012),{{cite web |author=GINIA BELLAFANTE |date=August 4, 2012 |work=New York Times |access-date=August 17, 2012 |title=Big City: For a Spicier City, Turn the Page? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/nyregion/for-a-spicier-city-turn-the-page.html}} about four women who live in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 2014, she published The Actress (Simon & Schuster), which Slate called "a valuable contribution to the canon of Hollywood fiction—a canon which is actually, incredibly, more sorely lacking strong female points of view than even Hollywood movies.”{{cite web |last1=Longworth |first1=Karina |title=I Used to Know Her: A sharp novel about the way Hollywood warps its female stars |url=https://slate.com/culture/2014/07/amy-sohns-novel-the-actress-reviewed.html |website=Slate.com |date=July 7, 2014 |access-date=10 March 2021}}

She was a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she wrote the weekly "Mating" column.{{Cite web |url= http://nymag.com/nymag/author_453/|title=Amy Sohn Archive |access-date=May 11, 2010 |publisher=New York Magazine }} From 1996 to 1999, she wrote a dating column, "Female Trouble", for New York Press. Her articles and reviews have also appeared in The Nation, Playboy, Harper's Bazaar, Men's Journal and The New York Times Book Review. In 2012, she cowrote the book It's Not About the Pom-Poms with Laura Vikmanis.{{cite web |url=http://skinnymom.com/2012/03/20/laura-vikmanis-its-not-about-the-pom-poms/ |title=Laura Vikmanis: "Its Not About the Pom-Poms" | Skinny | Skinny Mom | How to get skinny fast | Get Skinny | Skinny tips by modern fit and Skinny moms |access-date=2012-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906063803/http://skinnymom.com/2012/03/20/laura-vikmanis-its-not-about-the-pom-poms/ |archive-date=September 6, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}

She wrote the films Pagans, which is in post-production, and Spin the Bottle, available through TLA Releasing.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}} She cocreated, wrote and starred in the Oxygen television series Avenue Amy{{cite news| author =William Berlind| title =Sex Kitten Amy Sohn Reemerges at Oxygen| newspaper =The New York Observer| date =March 27, 2000| url =http://observer.com/2000/03/sex-kitten-amy-sohn-reemerges-at-oxygen/| access-date = June 8, 2015}} and appears on television as a pundit on popular culture.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

In 2022, she became a press secretary for New York City Mayor Eric Adams.{{Cite web |author=The Editors |date=2022-12-05 |title=39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now |url=https://www.curbed.com/article/reasons-to-love-new-york-2022.html |access-date=2022-12-28 |website=New York Magazine |language=en-us}}

= Works =

Novels

Run Catch Kiss. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
My Old Man. Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Prospect Park West. Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Motherland. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
The Actress. Simon & Schuster, 2014.
CBD! OR Books, 2019.{{Cite web|title=Books|url=https://www.amysohn.com/books/|url-status=live|access-date=30 June 2021|website=Amy Sohn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622022720/http://www.amysohn.com:80/books/ |archive-date=June 22, 2012 }}
Brooklyn Bailey, the Missing Dog. Dial Books, 2020.{{Cite web|title=Bio|url=https://www.amysohn.com/bio/|url-status=live|access-date=30 June 2021|website=Amy Sohn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615223342/http://www.amysohn.com:80/bio/ |archive-date=June 15, 2012 }}

Screenplays

Spin the Bottle. 1998.
Pagans. 2004.{{Cite web|title=Amy Sohn|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812293/|url-status=live|access-date=30 June 2021|website=IMDb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050406115546/http://www.imdb.com:80/name/nm0812293/ |archive-date=April 6, 2005 }}

Nonfiction