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Meghan O'Rourke was born on 26 January, 1976 in New York City, New York, U.S., is an American poet. Discover Meghan O'Rourke's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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Age 48 years old
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Born 26 January 1976
Birthday 26 January
Birthplace New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1976

Meghan O'Rourke (born 1976) is an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic.

O'Rourke was born January 26, 1976, in Brooklyn, New York.

The eldest of three children born to Paul and Barbara O’Rourke, she had two younger brothers.

Her mother was a longtime teacher and administrator at Saint Ann's, an elite independent school in Brooklyn, and later headmaster of the Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.

Her father, a classicist and Egyptologist, also taught at Saint Ann's and Pierrepont.

O'Rourke attended St. Ann's through high school.

1997

She earned a bachelor's of arts degree in English language and literature from Yale University in 1997 and a master of fine arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2005.

2000

Immediately after graduating from Yale, O'Rourke began an internship as an editor at The New Yorker. She was promoted to fiction/nonfiction editor in 2000, becoming one of the youngest editors ever at the publication.

During this time, she also freelanced as a contributing editor of the literary quarterly Grand Street.

2002

In 2002, O'Rourke moved to the online magazine Slate, serving as culture and literary editor until 2009 and as founding editor of DoubleX, a section of Slate that focused on women’s issues.

2005

She also continued to moonlight with other publications; from 2005 to 2010 she was a poetry coeditor of the Paris Review.

She is also an occasional contributor to The New York Times. O'Rourke has written on a wide range of topics, including horse racing, gender bias in the literary world, the politics of marriage and divorce, and the place of grief and mourning in modern society.

She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, The New Republic, and Poetry, along with Perrine's Literatures Twelfth Edition.

2007

O'Rourke's first book of poems, Halflife, was published by Norton in 2007.

2011

Her book The Long Goodbye, a memoir of grief and mourning written after her mother's death, was published to wide critical acclaim in 2011.

2019

On July 1, 2019, O'Rourke became editor of The Yale Review, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its founding.

O'Rourke suffers from an autoimmune disorder that she has written about for The New Yorker.

Her latest book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, was released in March 2022.

Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten books of 2022, regardless of genre.

O'Rourke has been treated for Lyme disease.

The Invisible Kingdom details her decade-long struggle with it and with an autoimmune condition as well as the protracted process of obtaining a correct diagnosis.

O'Rourke details how her symptoms were discounted by medical professionals, some of whom lacked empathy.

The memoir is highly critical of the medical establishment, documenting its inadequacy in treating those with chronic medical conditions, especially those without a clear diagnosis.

The memoir was nominated for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.