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    • Caitlin Flanagan

    American writer and social critic (born 1961)

    Caitlin Flanagan (born November 14, 1961) is an American writer and social critic.[1] A contributor to The Atlantic since February 2001,[2][3] she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2019.[4]

    Her 2004 piece for The New Yorker[5][6] was expanded into the 2006 book To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife. Flanagan also authored the 2012 book Girl Land.

    Early life and education

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    Flanagan was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Berkeley, California.[1] She is white, and the daughter of Jean (Parker), a nurse, and writer Thomas Flanagan.[1][7] She has written about having been the victim of an attempted sexual assault by a high school classmate in 1978.[8] She attempted suicide the following year.[9] Her sister Ellen is married to no