Amy Sohn is a

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-based author, columnist and screenwriter. Her first two novels were ''Run Catch Kiss'' (1999) and ''My Old Man'' (2004), both published by

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, and a companion guide to television's ''

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'', ''Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell'' (Pocket Books).

Early life

She graduated from

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in 1991 and

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with an A.B. in 1995.

Career

Sohn's novels include ''Prospect Park West'' (2009) and its sequel ''Motherland'' (2012), about four women who live in the

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neighborhood of

. In 2014, she published ''The Actress'' (Simon & Schuster), which Slate called "a valuable contribution to the canon of Hollywood fiction—a canon which is actually, incredibly, more sorely lacking strong female points of view than even Hollywood movies.” She was a contributing editor at ''

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'' magazine, where she wrote the weekly "Mating" column. From 1996 to 1999, she wrote a dating column, "Female Trouble", for

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. Her articles and reviews have also appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''The

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''. In 2012, she cowrote the book ''It's Not About the Pom-Poms'' with

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. She wrote the films ''Pagans'', which is in post-production, and ''Spin the Bottle'', available through TLA Releasing. She cocreated, wrote and starred in the Oxygen television series ''Avenue Amy'' and appears on television as a pundit on popular culture. In 2022, she became a press secretary for New York City Mayor

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Works

Novels * ''Run Catch Kiss''. Simon & Schuster, 1999. * ''My Old Man''. Simon & Schuster, 2004. * ''Prospect Park West''. Simon & Schuster, 2009. * ''Motherland''. Simon & Schuster, 2012. * ''The Actress''. Simon & Schuster, 2014. * ''CBD!'' OR Books, 2019. * ''Brooklyn Bailey, the Missing Dog''. Dial Books, 2020. Screenplays * ''Spin the Bottle''. 1998. * ''Pagans''. 2004. Nonfiction * ''The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

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