She lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass, where she is writing a new novel. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study. The world of academic life sciences is rendered with precision in 'Intuition' it is obvious that the author took her time to really get into the work in the lab in a prestigious institute. Intuition Allegra Goodman 385 pages first pub 2006 ( editions) fiction contemporary literary emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced Description Allegra Goodman returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She has written two collections of short stories, The Family Markowitz and Total Immersion and a novel for younger readers, The Other Side of the Island. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The American Scholar. Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. Allegra Goodman managed to find the underappreciated niche and filled it with a remarkable book. Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector 3 likes Like The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. We want and want, and theres no way around it. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares and has been anthologized in The O. Allegra Goodman, Intuition 3 likes Like Weve got an acquisitive gene. Allegra Goodman’s novels include Sam (a Read With Jenna Book Club selection), The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist).

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