Kate Bolick

Kate Bolick is an author and freelance journalist. Her first book, the best-selling Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and translated into multiple languages. She co-authored March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (Library of America, 2019), and wrote introductions to The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Penguin Classics, 2019), Flowers and their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms, by Karen Azoulay (Clarkson Potter, March 2023), and The Prodigal Women, by Nancy Hale (Library of America, May 2023). Her newest book, Every Friend a Phantom, is forthcoming from Random House in 2024.

Bolick’s journalism and criticism has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker online, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue, among other publications. Previously, she was executive editor of Domino, a columnist for The Boston Globe's Ideas Section, and online literary editor of The Atlantic.

Bolick is currently a Lecturer in English at Yale University, and an adjunct professor in the Cultural Reporting & Criticism MA Program at New York University. She has also taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She speaks frequently at colleges and conferences, and has appeared on The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, MSNBC, and numerous NPR programs across the country.

Bolick grew up in Newburyport, MA, and lives in Brooklyn, NY, and New Haven, CT.