Roiphe has written four books: The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism (1993), Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End (1997), Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 (2007), and In Praise of Messy Lives (2012). She received a BA (literature) from Harvard University and a PhD (lieterature) from Princeton University.]