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Maggie Nelson
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Maggie Nelson is an American writer whose work combines autobiography, criticism, and theory to explore art, gender, sexuality, and personal experience.
Biography
Maggie Nelson, born in 1973, is an American writer whose work crosses autobiography, art criticism, scholarship, and poetry. Her subjects include feminism, queerness, sexual violence, philosophy, aesthetic theory, and the history of the avant-garde. Her writing resists straightforward genre classification, drawing together personal accounts and theoretical inquiry. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.
Nelson is best known for The Argonauts, her 2015 work of autotheory. In it, she connects her relationship with artist Harry Dodge and her experience of pregnancy with discussions of sexuality, gender, marriage, and childrearing. This combination of memoir and critical exploration examines the possibilities and limits of language alongside questions of identity, individual freedom, and caretaking.
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Books by Maggie Nelson
The Argonauts
The Argonauts is a memoir and work of autotheory that connects Nelson’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge and her experience of pregnancy to queer family making. It combines personal experience with theoretical explorations of desire, identity, sexuality, gender, marriage, childrearing, and the possibilities and limits of love and language.