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Priscilla Gilman

Biography

Priscilla Gilman

Priscilla Gilman is the author of the memoirs THE CRITIC'S DAUGHTER and THE ANTI-ROMANTIC CHILD, and a former professor of English literature at Yale University and Vassar College. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

Priscilla Gilman

Books by Priscilla Gilman

by Priscilla Gilman - Memoir, Nonfiction

Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring and mercurial father --- the writer, theater critic and Yale School of Drama professor Richard Gilman. But when Priscilla was 10 years old, her mother, renowned literary agent Lynn Nesbit, abruptly announced that she was ending the marriage. The resulting cascade of disturbing revelations --- about her parents’ hollow marriage, her father’s double life and tortured sexual identity --- fundamentally changed Priscilla’s perception of her father, as she attempted to protect him from the depression that had long shadowed him.