Wolf told interviewer Rachel Cooke, writing for The Observer, in 2019: 'My subject didn't exist.

Her writing became so personal and subjective that her tutor advised against submitting her doctoral thesis. Wolf's initial period at Oxford University was difficult as she experienced 'raw sexism, overt snobbery and casual antisemitism'. From 1985 to 1987, she was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford. Wolf attended Yale University, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1984. She attended Lowell High School and debated in regional speech tournaments as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. Wolf has a brother, Aaron, and a half-brother, Julius, from her father's earlier relationship it remained a secret until Wolf was in her 30s. Leonard Wolf died from Parkinson's disease on March 20, 2019. Her father was Leonard Wolf, a Romanian-born scholar of gothic horror novels, faculty member at San Francisco State University, and Yiddish translator. Her mother is Deborah Goleman Wolf, an anthropologist and the author of The Lesbian Community.

Wolf was born in San Francisco, to a Jewish family. In June 2021, her Twitter account was suspended for posting anti-vaccine misinformation. She has objected to COVID-19 lockdowns and has criticized COVID-19 vaccines. She has received criticism for promoting misinformation on topics such as beheadings carried out by ISIS, the Western African Ebola virus epidemic and Edward Snowden. Since around 2014, Wolf has been described, by journalists and media outlets, as a conspiracy theorist.

Wolf's career in journalism has included topics such as abortion and the Occupy Wall Street movement in articles for media outlets such as The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post. Critics have challenged the quality and accuracy of the scholarship in her books her serious misreading of court records for Outrages (2019) led to its US publication being cancelled. Wolf's later books include the bestseller The End of America in 2007 and Vagina: A New Biography.

In the 1990s, she was a political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Others, including Camille Paglia, criticized it. Feminists including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised her work. įollowing her first book The Beauty Myth (1991), she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement. Naomi Rebekah Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American feminist author, journalist and conspiracy theorist.

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