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Melanie Thernstrom (born 1964) is an author and contributing writer for the ''New York Times Magazine'' who frequently writes about murders and crime. == Biography == Thernstrom attended Harvard University, where she graduated with highest honors in English.〔(New York Times wedding announcement ), 2008-01-21. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.〕 She received an MFA in creative writing at Cornell and taught creative writing at Cornell, Harvard, and in the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. == Books == Thernstrom's senior thesis was entitled ''Mistakes of Metaphor'', an account of the mysterious disappearance and murder of her best friend, Bibi Lee, three years earlier, for which Lee’s boyfriend was eventually convicted on the basis of a confession which he recanted. Thernstrom's poetry professor showed the thesis to literary agents, and she soon received an advance of $367,000. ''The Dead Girl'', which was published by Pocket Books in 1990, was praised by literary critics such as Harold Bloom, Harold Brodkey and Helen Vendler as reimagining the true crime genre with its use of literary theory and reflections on memory and metaphor.〔Vendler, Helen. "(Breath of Art )", The New York Review of Books, 1991-03-28. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.〕 Thernstrom's second book, ''Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder'', was about Sinedu Tadesse, a Harvard junior from Ethiopia who murdered her Vietnamese roommate and then committed suicide while living at Dunster House in 1995. In contrast to ''The Dead Girl'', ''Halfway Heaven'' explores murder from the point of view of the murderer. Thernstrom had met Tadesse while teaching an autobiographical writing course at Harvard. After her death, Thernstrom reported on it for ''The New Yorker'',〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "Diary of a Murder", The New Yorker, 1996-06-03.〕 traveling to Ethiopia and obtaining access to Tadesse's diaries which described her struggles against growing mental illness and her failed attempts to get help from the University. ''Halfway Heaven'' was praised by Mikal Gilmore and Elaine Showalter.〔Showalter, Elaine. The Times Literary Supplement, 1998-12-18.〕 In 1999, Thernstrom wrote a lengthy ''Vanity Fair'' article on murdered college student Matthew Shepard.〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(The Crucifixion of Matthew Shepard )", Vanity Fair, March 1999.〕 Her pieces in the ''New York Times Magazine'' have included ones on the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda,〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "( Charlotte, Grace, Janet and Caroline Come Home )", The New York Times Magazine, 2005-05-08. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.〕 narrative medicine,〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(The Writing Cure )", The New York Times Magazine, 2004-04-18. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.〕 physical pain,〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(My Pain, My Brain )", The New York Times Magazine, 2006-05-14. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.〕〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(Pain, the Disease )", The New York Times Magazine, 2001-12-16. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.〕 high-end matchmakers,〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(The New Arranged Marriage )", The New York Times Magazine, 2005-02-13. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.〕 divorce,〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(Untying the Knot )", The New York Times Magazine, 2003-08-24. Retrieved on 2008-07-20.〕 fugitives,〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(The Silence of the Lam )", The New York Times Magazine, 2000-12-03. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.〕 and a personal essay on losing an art inheritance.〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(The Inheritance that Got Away )", The New York Times Magazine, 2002-06-09. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.〕 Her work has also appeared in ''New York'' magazine,〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(Spending Sickness )", New York, 2002-07-08. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.〕 ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Food & Wine'',〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(Shattered Sugar )", Food & Wine, December 2004. Retrieved on 2006-06-04.〕〔Thernstrom, Melanie. "(My Best Friend's Wedding Cake )", Food & Wine, June 2001. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.〕 ''Travel + Leisure'', ''Elle'', and other publications. Her food essays have appeared in ''Best American Food Writing 2001'' and ''2004''. == Personal life == Thernstrom is the daughter of Abigail Thernstrom, a prominent political scientist, and Stephan Thernstrom, the Winthrop Professor of American History at Harvard. She lives with her husband and two children in Palo Alto, California. ==Footnotes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melanie Thernstrom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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