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Michelene Wandor (Michelene Dinah Samuels) was born on 20 April, 1940 in Essex, England, is an English dramatist (born 1940). Discover Michelene Wandor'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 83 years old?
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Michelene Dinah Samuels |
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Playwright, critic, broadcaster, poet, lecturer, and musician |
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83 years old |
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Aries |
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20 April 1940 |
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20 April |
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Essex, England |
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Michelene Wandor Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Michelene Wandor's Husband?
Her husband is Ed Victor (m. 1963-1975)
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Ed Victor (m. 1963-1975) |
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Michelene Wandor Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Michelene Wandor worth at the age of 83 years old? Michelene Wandor’s income source is mostly from being a successful Playwright. She is from . We have estimated Michelene Wandor's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Michelene Dinah Wandor (née Samuels; born 20 April 1940), known from 1963 to at least 1979 as Michelene Victor, is an English playwright, critic, broadcaster, poet, lecturer, and musician.
She was born Michelene Samuels in Essex, England, in 1940.
Her parents, Abraham Samuels and Rosalia Wander, were early 20th-century Russian Jewish émigrés.
After attending Chingford Secondary Modern and High Schools, Wandor studied English at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1962.
Michelene Wandor married literary agent Ed Victor in 1963; the couple had two sons, but divorced in 1975.
Wandor has been active in the Women's Liberation Movement since 1969 and edited its first collection of essays, The Body Politic, in 1972.
She was poetry editor of the original Time Out magazine from 1971 to 1982.
Her own writing encompasses poetry, short stories, essays, fiction and non-fiction books, plays and radio dramatisations.
She also has master's degrees from the University of Essex (Sociology of Literature 1975–76) and in Music from London University/Trinity College of Music, London.
In 1982, her work (together with that of Michèle Roberts and Judith Kazantzis) was included in Touch Papers: Three Women Poets, published by Allison and Busby.
She also edited the volume of essays On Gender and Writing (Pandora Press, 1983).
In addition, Wandor has written two theatre studies: Carry On, Understudies: Theatre and Sexual Politics (1986, expanded version of Understudies, 1981) and Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender (2001, original edition Look Back in Gender, 1987).
For Methuen she has edited four collections of Plays by Women.
In 1987, Wandor became the first woman to have a play performed on one of the main stages (Lyttelton Theatre) of the National Theatre, The Wandering Jew (from the 1844 novel of the same name by Eugène Sue).
Once a Feminist followed in 1990 and is an oral history of the previous 20 years.
Her collection of short stories False Relations appeared in 2004.
Wandor describes herself as "a good Jewish atheist".
Her recent poetry reflects her background and the history of Jews in England.
Music of the Prophets (2007) commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Jews' return to England in 1657 in the era of Cromwell.
A trained early musician, Wandor performs Renaissance and Baroque music with the group "The Siena Ensemble", and has broadcast and recorded in this role.
Wandor has taught at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London Metropolitan University and comparable institutions abroad.
At Lancaster University she is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing.
In 2008, Macmillan published Wandor's thoughts on this subject, The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived.