Kate Bolick

Kate Bolick (born 1972)^[1] is the author of New York Times bestseller Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own. She is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic,^[2] and host of "Touchstones at The Mount,^[3]" an annual literary interview series at Edith Wharton’s country estate in the Berkshires

Bolick attended Colby College and New York University.^[4]

Career

Kate Bolick is most well known as the author of New York Times bestseller Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own. In addition to her work with The Atlantic, Bolick contributes writing to Elle, ^[5]Cosmopolitan,^[6] Vogue,^[7] The New York Times,^[8] and The Wall Street Journal,^[9] among other publications. Previously, Bolick was the executive editor of Domino,^[10] as well as a columnist for The Boston Globe's Ideas Section.^[11]

Bolick's appearances include The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR programs around the country.^[12]

She teaches at Yale University.^[13]

Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

In her 2015 New York Times Bestselling book, Bolick asks and answers a question she posed in a 2011 cover story for The Atlantic: "How does a woman move through life alone?" Heather Havrilesky, writing in The New York Times, gave the book a positive review, saying that "what Spinster actually offers is an idiosyncratic journey through Bolick's decades-long exploration of how to live independently, with cues from an assortment of nontraditional women."^[14]