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Robin Lakoff (1942-2025) Linguist, author. Robin Lakoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Walnut Creek, California.

Full Name

Robin Beth Tolmach Lakoff

Locations

KingsNew York

Author's Timeline


1942

Birth

Kings County: Robin Lakoff was born Robin Beth Tolmach in Brooklyn, New York, on November 27, 1942.

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Residence

New York County: As a child, Ms. Lakoff lived in the Stuyvesant Town neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York.

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Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Lakoff attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan, New York.

1975

Literary Work

Language and Woman's Place
Harpercollins College Division
0061320935 / 978-0061320934
Nonfiction.

1984

Literary Work

Face Value: The Politics of Beauty
Hacker Art Books
0710097425 / 978-0710097422
Nonfictioin written with Raquel L. Scherr.

1985

Literary Work

When Talk is Not Cheap: Or How to Find the Right Therapist When You Don't Know Where to Begin
Grand Central Publishing
0446513091 / 978-0446513098
Nonfiction written with Mandy Aftel.

1990

Literary Work

Talking Power: The Politics of Language
Basic Books
0465083587 / 978-0465083589
Nonfiction.

1993

Literary Work

Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud's Case of Dora
Teachers College Press
0807762679 / 978-0807762677
Nonfiction written with James C. Coyne.

2000

Literary Work

The Language War
University of California Press
0520216660 / 978-0520216662
Collection of essays.

2004

Literary Work

Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries (Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality)
Oxford University Press
0195167589 / 978-0195167580
Nonfictiion.

2025

Death

Robin Lakoff died in a hospital in Walnut Creek, California, on August 5, 2025.

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