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Elissa Altman is an American author.[1] She is the recipient of 2012 James Beard Foundation Award and authored Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking,[2][3] which was published in 2013 and declared the “the finest food memoir of recent years" by New York Times Book Review
Early Life and education
Altman was born in New York to Rita, a former television singer and Cy Altman, an advertising agency creative director. [4] Altman grew up in Manhattan and Queens.[5] She graduated with BA in English literature from Boston University in 1985.[6] She also attended Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University in 1983.
After graduating from Boston University, Altman worked in publishing as an executive editor and attended the Institute of Culinary Education .[6] In 2013, Altman was awarded the Boston University College of General Studies Distinguished Alumni Award.[7]
Altman is a longtime guitarist, having started playing at age 4, and eventually taking lessons from Eddie Simon, brother of Paul, at New York's Guitar Study Center. [8] She stopped playing in 2008 after the death by suicide of her cousin and playing partner, Harris Wulfson[9]citing clinical depression as a cause of her disconnection from music. She has since returned to active guitar playing, recording with artist Kristin Flagg in 2022.[10]
Works
Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking
In 2013, Altman Published her book Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort,Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, based on her James Beard Foundation Award winning blog of the same name. [11]
It narrates the story of her Jewish upbringing in Forest Hills and the merging of cultures with her partner, Susan Turner, whose Polish Catholic family was very different from her own.[12]
TREYF: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
In 2016, She published her memoir that narrates her nontraditional life as middle class Jewish in 1960s Queens and dawning realization of her homosexuality.[13]
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
In 2019, she published Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing a memoir about her relationship with her narcissistic personality disordered mother, their emotional estrangement, and Altman's role as her primary caregiver after her mother suffers from a catastrophic accident. [14]
Motherland was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography at 32nd Lambda Literary Awards. It was also a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and Maine Literary Award.[15]
Altman's essays have been published everywhere from On Being to Orion, the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post, where her column, Feeding My Mother, ran for a year. [16]
Altman is a full-time writer, teacher of memoir, and editor, and in 2022 became a member of TESS, The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University.[17]
References
- ^ Shlack, Julie Witters. "Food Writer Elissa Altman Dives Into New Territory With Family Memoir, 'Treyf'". wbur.org. WBUR-FM. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Drzal, Dawn. "Food Chronicle". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Kummer, Corby. "The Best Food Books of 2013". The Atlantic Magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Bolton-Fasman, Judy. "Elissa Altman's Third Memoir Features Her Complicated Mother". Jewish Boston. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Sassoon, Mara. "Layers of Love, Loathing, and Longing". Bu.edu. Boston University. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ a b Laskowski, Emmy. "On Eating". Bu Today. Boston University. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni Award | General Studies". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ Hinrichs, Christie (2022-06-21). "Altman". Authors Unbound. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ "Harris J. Wulfson | 1996 | Amherst College". www.amherst.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ "Elissa Altman on Instagram: "At @ondecksoundstudio with @kristiflagg.studio who gave me back my breath today. More grateful than I have words for. Right around the time that Motherland came out, I was in conversation with the remarkable @debbiemillman on her podcast, Design Matters. Debbie does a LOT of homework --- she knew stuff about my background that I'd long forgotten --- and one of the things she asked about was music, and whether I'd ever consider making it a career. I answered (more or less) that I didn't want it to become work; it had saved my life, and I never wanted to associate it with anything resembling drudgery. (Or something like that.) My response was not entirely true, although I've always maintained (in fact) that I never wanted it to become work for me. But the real reason I never pursued music as a career --- even after playing in clubs and opening for fairly famous folks --- was this: in my house, music belonged to my mother. She was the singer, the erstwhile sensation, the television star. So visceral was her musical persona that she clung to it like a life preserver, as the most important remnant of a past life that she gave up when she discovered she was pregnant with me, at 6 months along. As a child, I played guitar quietly, in my room. Very often, she and my father would haul me out for cocktail parties and command me to PLAY AND SING, and I couldn't --- not with my mother and her Ethel Merman, show-stopping voice and all the drama that went along with it. Once I left home and found myself at school in Boston and playing in clubs, she never came to hear me. Not once in four years. I stopped playing publicly because it was too dangerous for me to take that persona from or share it with my mother. So I hid it. When the one person in my family who I regularly played with --- my brilliant musician/composer cousin Harris Wulfson --- died, I shut my cases forever. A few years ago, the phenomenal @kristiflagg.studio became relentless in getting me to play publicly again. So I did. And today, after playing lead lines for a single cut meant for her upcoming album, I sat in my car and wept with gratitude. 🙏🏻 TY @kristiflagg.studio and @tracywaltonmusic 🙏🏻"". Instagram. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ Hines-Dochterman, Meredith. "Author didn't always realize that eating simply also meant eating well". The Gazette. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Ketchum, Sally D. "Elissa Altman: The writing that eats away at you". New York Journal of Book. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Hymowech, Gena. "'Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw' by Elissa Altman". Lambada Literary. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ "An eloquent, poignant memoir". Kirkus Review. Kirkus. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Hinrichs, Christie (2022-06-21). "Altman". Authors Unbound. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ Hinrichs, Christie (2022-06-21). "Altman". Authors Unbound. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ "Who We Are". The Environmental Storytelling Studio. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
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