num_pages: 384
description: Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative incendiary and career-making pieces by bestselling author essayist political activist and veteran muckraker Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker).A self-proclaimed myth buster by trade Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance social consciousness and wry wit.From Ehrenreich's award-winning article Welcome to Cancerland published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller Natural Causes Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical thought-provoking and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review the Washington Post the Atlantic Monthly and the Los Angeles Times Book Review among others while her essays op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times Harper's Magazine the New York Times Magazine Time the Wall Street Journal and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.
language: English
title: Had I Known
publisher: Twelve