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Maggie Nelson

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American writer

United StatesWritersBorn 1973 · age 53
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Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry.

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2018Book of Real Prize
2016MacArthur Fellows Program
2015National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
2011National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
2010Guggenheim Fellowship

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Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, and several other major awards in the years before that. She is best known for her work of autotheory, The Argonauts (2015).

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United States
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Born 1973 · age 53
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