Larissa MacFarquhar is an American writer known for her profiles in The New Yorker.
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Born | 1968 (age 53–54) London, England |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1998-present |
Spouse | Philip Gourevitch |
Relatives | Roderick MacFarquhar (father) |
She is the daughter of the sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar.[1] She was born in London and moved to the United States at the age of 16.[2]
MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998[3] and has written profiles on Barack Obama, Derek Parfit, Hilary Mantel, Robert Gottlieb, Richard Posner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chelsea Manning and Aaron Swartz, among others.[4] Her 2015 book Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help explores the motivations of people who take altruism to extremes. She is married to the writer Philip Gourevitch.
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