Over the past decade she has also taught at both Stony Brook Southampton's MFA in Creative Writing program and the Southampton Writers Conference and the Florence Writers Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, Skidmore College, and, most recently, was a guest artist at Princeton University. She also co-authored, with Jesse Green, a book of cryptic crosswords, Nutcrackers: Devilishly Addictive Mind Twisters for the Insatiably Verbivorous (1991), and has written about the relative difficulty women writers face in gaining critical acclaim. Her novel for younger readers, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, was published in 2011. Her short story 'Tea at the House' was featured in 1998's Best American Short Stories collection. Her following books include Hidden Pictures (1986), This Is Your Life (1988), Surrender, Dorothy (1998), The Wife (2003), The Position (2005), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Uncoupling (2011), and The Interestings (2013). She wrote her first novel, Sleepwalking, a story of three college girls obsessed with poetry and death, while still an undergraduate it was published in 1982. Wolitzer studied creative writing at Smith College and graduated from Brown University in 1981. Wolitzer was born in Brooklyn and raised in Syosset, New York, the daughter of novelist Hilma Wolitzer (née Liebman) and psychologist Morton Wolitzer. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion.

The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings Wolitzer at the 2011 Texas Book Festival, Austin

Meg wolitzer the female persuasion