Marilyn Yalom
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Marilyn Yalom

Marilyn Yalom grew up in Washington D.C. and was educated at Wellesley College, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has been married to the psychiatrist Irvin Yalom for fifty years and is the mother of four children and the grandmother of five. She has been a professor of French and comparative literature, director of an institute for research on women, a popular speaker on the lecture circuit, and the author of numerous books and articles on literature and women's history. Curriculum vitae of Marilyn YalomHer books have been translated into 20 languages. In 1991 she was decorated as an Officier des Palmes Académiques by the French Government. Books by Marilyn Yalom include Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness , Blood Sisters : The French Revolution in Women's Memory , A History of the Breast , A History of the Wife , Birth of the Chess Queen and The American Resting Place . Marilyn Yalom Institute for Research on Women and Gender Stanford University Stanford, Ca, 94305 723-1994 Biographical sketch of Marilyn Yalom EDUCATION 1963 Ph.d. Comparative Literature, Johns Hopkins University Dissertation: The Myth of the Trial in the Works of Camus and Kafka Dissertation Director René Girard 1956 M. A. T., French, German, Harvard University 1954 B. A. in French, Wellesley College 1953 Diplôme de Littérature Contemporaine, University of Paris/Sorbonne EMPLOYMENT 1987- Present Senior scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University 1976-1987 Deputy Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Lecturer, Modern Thought and Literature Program, Stanford University 1963-1976 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Profesor of Foreign Languages, California State University / Hayward 1961-1962 Instructor in French, University of Hawaii HONORS AND GRANTS Officier des Palmes Academiques awarded by the Fr...