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Katha Pollitt, author portrait
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Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt is the author of the essay collections Learning to Drive, Virginity or Death!, Subject to Debate, and Reasonable Creatures, and is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. She has won many prizes and awards for her work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for her first collection of poems, Antarctic Traveller, and two National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism. She lives in New York City.
Learning to Drive
Subject to Debate
Reasonable Creatures

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Learning to Drive
Subject to Debate
Reasonable Creatures

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