Editing Susan Faludi (section)

==Biographical information==
Faludi was born in 1959 in [[Queens]], New York, and grew up in [[Yorktown Heights, New York]]. She was born to Marilyn (Lanning), a homemaker and journalist, and Stefánie Faludi (then known as Steven Faludi, and born István Friedman), who was a photographer.<ref name="theguardian1">{{cite news |author=Susan Faludi |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/04/susan-faludi-getting-know-father-woman-the-darkroom |title=Susan Faludi: getting to know my father, the woman &#124; Books |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3424200073/backlash-undeclared-war-against.html |title=Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women – Nonfiction Classics for Students |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |date=April 18, 1959 |access-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref> Stefánie Faludi had emigrated from Hungary, was Jewish, and a survivor of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]; she eventually came out as a transgender woman and died in 2015.<ref name="theguardian1"/> Susan Faludi has [[dual citizenship in the United States of America|dual US-Hungarian citizenship]].<ref name="theguardian2">{{cite news |author=Susan Faludi |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/05/hungary-right-trend-us-viktor-orban-donald-trump |title=Susan Faludi: Hungary's sharp rightward turn is a warning to America |newspaper=The Guardian |date=December 5, 2016 |access-date=December 5, 2016}}</ref> Faludi's maternal grandfather was also Jewish.<ref name="theguardian1"/> Susan graduated from [[Harvard University]] with an [[Bachelor of Arts|AB]] [[summa cum laude]] in 1981, where she was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and served as Managing Editor of ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', and became a journalist, writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Miami Herald]]'', ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]'', ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]'', and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', among other publications.

Throughout the eighties she wrote several articles on feminism and the apparent resistance to the movement. Seeing a pattern emerge, Faludi wrote ''[[Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women|Backlash]]'', which was released in late 1991. In 2008–2009, Faludi was a fellow at the [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]],<ref>Susan Faludi's Radcliffe Webpage: {{cite web |url=http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2009sfaludi.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=October 11, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606214905/http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2009sfaludi.aspx |archive-date=June 6, 2011 }}</ref> and during the 2013–2014 academic year, she was the Tallman Scholar in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at [[Bowdoin College]].<ref>{{cite news |date=June 13, 2013 |author=Abby McBride |url=http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2013/06/bowdoin-welcomes-writer-susan-faludi-as-tallmann-scholar/ |title=Bowdoin Welcomes Writer Susan Faludi as Tallman Scholar |access-date=November 19, 2015 |archive-date=November 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119212723/http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2013/06/bowdoin-welcomes-writer-susan-faludi-as-tallmann-scholar/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She is married to fellow author [[Russ Rymer]].<ref>{{cite news |title=AT HOME WITH: Susan Faludi and Russ Rymer; Sympathy for Men, Empathy With One |date=October 21, 1999 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/21/garden/at-home-with-susan-faludi-and-russ-rymer-sympathy-for-men-empathy-with-one.html}}</ref> Since January 2013, Faludi has been a contributing editor at ''[[The Baffler]]'' magazine in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. In 1996, she was awarded ''honoris causa'' membership in [[Omicron Delta Kappa]] at [[SUNY Plattsburgh]]. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from [[Stockholm University]] in Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sandberg |first=Anne Heikkinen |title=Honorary Doctorates 2017 - Stockholm University |url=http://www.su.se/english/about/ceremonies/honorary-doctorates/honorary-doctorates-2017-1.328417 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20180612143650/https://www.su.se/english/about/ceremonies/honorary-doctorates/honorary-doctorates-2017-1.328417 |archive-date=2018-06-12 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=www.su.se |language=en}}</ref>