Naomi Wolf

Birthday: November 12, 1962 in San Francisco, California, USA

Naomi Wolf graduated from Yale in 1984 and was a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford University. She is the author of the bestselling feminist books, "The Beauty Myth", "Fire with Fir ...Show More

Naomi Wolf graduated from Yale in 1984 and was a Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford University. She is the author of the bestselling feminist books, "The Beauty Myth", "Fire with Fire", "Promiscuities" and "Misconceptions". The New York Times called "The Beauty Myth" one of the 70 most significant books of the century. Wolf was a consulting editor at George Magazine. Her essays appear regularly in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Glamour, Ms., and other publications. Described by Camille Paglia as a "yuppie feminist", Wolf counseled Al Gore during his unsuccessful run for the U.S. presidency in 1999, for which she was heavily criticized. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. Hide