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(1940-2020) Writer, poet, memoirist. Kim Chernin was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Marin County, California.

Full Name

Kim Chernin

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline


1940

BIRTH

Elaine Kusnitz was born in the Bronx, New York, on May 7, 1940.

1981

LITWORK

The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
Harper & Row

Nonfiction.

1983

LITWORK

In My Mother's House
Ticknor & Fields
0899191673 / 978-0899191676
Memoir.

1983

LITWORK

The Hunger Song
The Menard Press
0903400804 / 978-0903400800
Poetry.

1986

LITWORK

The Flame Bearers: A Novel
Random House
0394556496 / 978-0394556499
Novel.

1987

LITWORK

Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself
Crown
0812913205 / 978-0812913200
Nonfiction.

1989

LITWORK

Sex and Other Sacred Games
Times Books
081291676X / 978-0812916768
Fiction written with Renate Stendhal.

1997

LITWORK

Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song
Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc
0060186445 / 978-0060186449
Nonfiction written with Renate Stendhal.

1998

LITWORK

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother: Tales of Transformation in Women's Lives
Viking Adult
0670880965 / 978-0670880966
Nonfiction.

2002

LITWORK

The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back
Edgework Books
1931223009 / 978-1931223003
Fiction.

2014

LITWORK

Lesbian Marriage: A Love & Sex Forever Kit
www.lesbiansexsurvival.com
0615992366 / 978-0615992365
Nonfiction written with Renate Stendhal.

2020

DEATH

Kim Chernin died at a hospital in Marin County, California, on December 17, 2020.

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