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Kira Peikoff
American novelist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kira Lily Peikoff (/ˈpiːkɒf/; born May 21, 1985)[1][2] is a journalist and novelist, based in New York City.[3]
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Personal life
Kira Peikoff was born to Objectivist scholar Leonard Peikoff and his then-wife Cynthia Pastor Peikoff, a psychotherapist in private practice.[2] She was named after the protagonist of Ayn Rand's We the Living.[4][5] She grew up in Irvine, California, being home-schooled[4] and then attending Woodbridge High School.[6] In 2007, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in journalism from New York University.[7] She married Matthew Beilis, a musician, in 2012.[8]
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During her undergraduate internships, Peikoff wrote about Congressional politics for the Orange County Register[6][9] and about business and technology for Newsday.[10][11] She also researched feature stories for New York magazine[12] and wrote for the New York Daily News.[13]
After graduation, Peikoff worked as an editorial assistant for Henry Holt and Company and for Random House. Since 2013, she has worked as a freelance journalist on health and science, having written articles for The New York Times,[14][15] Slate,[16] Salon,[17] Cosmopolitan,[18] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,[19] Psychology Today[20] and The Hastings Center Report.[21]
When Peikoff was 13 years old, Gone with the Wind inspired her to become a novelist.[22] In 2008, Peikoff finished writing her debut novel, Living Proof,[6] having taken a year off after university to write it,[23] and in February 2012, it was published.[24] The book, inspired by her disgust toward President George W. Bush's opposition to stem-cell research,[6] is a dystopian thriller set in a future time when embryo destruction is legally considered first-degree murder and fertility clinics are severely regulated by the government. The novel received largely positive reviews, among them a mildly positive review by Publishers Weekly,[25] a mildly negative review by Kirkus Reviews,[24] and positive reviews by Suspense Magazine[26] and Mystery Scene magazine.[27]
No Time to Die, a second biomedical thriller by Peikoff, was published in September 2014, receiving mildly positive reviews by the Romantic Times[28] and NJ.com.[29]
Peikoff is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.[30]
She is also the editor-in-chief of the science publication Leaps.org.
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Bibliography
- Living Proof (2012)
- No Time to Die (2014)
- Die Again Tomorrow (2015)
- Mother Knows Best (2019)
- Baby X
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