With husband Gil Reavill as co-author, Zimmerman published Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save Girls’ Lives (Doubleday, 1998), which was a Finalist for the 1999 Books for a Better Life Award sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Her first solo work was Tailspin: Women at War in the Wake of Tailhook (1995) which focused on the Tailhook Association scandal and the crucial link between sexual harassment and the role of women as warriors. It was based on the Harvard Business Review article that ignited the "mommy track" debate. Zimmerman's first book, Breaking With Tradition: Women and Work, the New Facts of Life (1992), was coauthored with Felice N. A graduate of Barnard College, Jean Zimmerman earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the Columbia University School of the Arts, and was awarded a New York State Fine Arts grant in 1983. Jean Zimmerman is an American author, poet and historian. Education-B.A., Barnard College M.F.A., Columbia University.
Raised-Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA.This narrative-a love story and a mystery with a powerful sense of fable-is his confession. ( From the publisher.) The tormented, self-dramatizing Hugo Delegate speaks from a prison cell where he is prepared to take the fall for his beloved Savage Girl. Zimmerman’s tale is narrated by the Delegate’s son, a Harvard anatomy student. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible, but the willful girl’s illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered. Jean Zimmerman’s new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society.īronwyn hits the highly mannered world of Edith Whartonera Manhattan like a bomb. A riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan’s Gilded Age society.
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