Claudia Roth Pierpont

{{short description|American journalist}}

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Claudia Roth Pierpont is an American writer and journalist. She has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1990 and became a staff writer in 2004.{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/contributors/claudia_roth_pierpont |title=Claudia Roth Pierpont: Contributors: The New Yorker |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=2008-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928073748/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/contributors/claudia_roth_pierpont |archive-date=2008-09-28 |url-status=dead }} Her subjects have included Friedrich Nietzsche, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, Orson Welles, the Ballets Russes and the Chrysler Building.

A collection of eleven of Pierpont's New Yorker essays, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World,{{Cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2000/03/28/pierpont/index.html |title=Salon Books | "Passionate Minds" by Claudia Roth Pierpont |access-date=2008-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518101053/http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2000/03/28/pierpont/index.html |archive-date=2008-05-18 |url-status=dead }} was published in 2000. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, the book juxtaposes the lives and works of women writers, including Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Stein, Anaïs Nin, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston.{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=23976|title=Claudia Roth Pierpont - Penguin Random House|website=www.randomhouse.com|access-date=19 October 2018}} Her biography of writer Philip Roth, Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2013 and has since been translated into several languages. Her book about the Chrysler Building, American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building, was published in 2016.

Pierpont has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.

Pierpont lives in New York City. She graduated from Barnard College in 1979 and holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history from New York University.{{Cite web |title=Writing the Family Portrait |url=https://barnard.edu/magazine/fall-2015/writing-family-portrait |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Barnard Magazine |language=en}} She has been a professor of creative journalism at New York University and Columbia University.{{cite web |url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069757/JRN_Profile_C/1175373426322/JRNFacultyDetail.htm |title=Faculty - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |access-date=2009-05-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080121032043/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069757/JRN_Profile_C/1175373426322/JRNFacultyDetail.htm |archive-date=2008-01-21 }}

She is the mother of author Julia Pierpont.{{cite web|url=https://womensvoicesforchange.org/book-review-among-the-ten-thousand-things.htm|title=Book Review: 'Among the Ten Thousand Things,' by Julia Pierpont|date=3 September 2015 |access-date=19 October 2018}}