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Joan Acocella (1945-2024) Dance critic, author. Joan Acocella was born in San Francisco, California, and died in Manhattan, New York. She wrote for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.

Full Name

Joan Acocella

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

1945

Birth

Joan Barbara Ross was born in San Francisco, California, on April 13, 1945.

1968

Residence

Ms. Acocella moved with her husband to New York City in 1968.

1970s

Other Life Event

Ms. Acocella worked as an editor and writer at Random House during the 1970s.

1993

Literary Work

Mark Morris
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374202958 / 978-0374202958
Nonfiction.

1999

Literary Work

Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder
Jossey-Bass
0787947946 / 978-0787947941
Nonfiction.

2000

Literary Work

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
University of Nebraska Press
0803210469 / 978-0803210462
Nonfiction.

2007

Literary Work

Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
Pantheon
0375424164 / 978-0375424168
A collection of essays and reviews.

2024

Death

New York County: Joan Acocella died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on January 7, 2024.

2024

Literary Work

The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374608091 / 978-0374608095
Nonfiction.

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