Rosin was born to a Jewish family in Israel and grew up in Queens, where her father was a taxi driver She graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1987, where she won a number of competitions on the debate team with her partner David Coleman.
She attended Stanford University, and is married to Atlas Obscura Chief Executive Officer David Plotz. They live in Washington, District of Columbia
Rosin writes for The Atlantic, and has written for the The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, New York and The New Republic. She is the author of God"s Harvard (2007) and The End of Men: And the Rise of Women (2012). She is also a writer for The Atlantic.
She has written for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Gentlemen’s Quarterly and New York after beginning her career as a staff writer for The New Republic.
Rosin has also appeared on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Rosin has published a book based on her 2010 Atlantic story, The End of Men.
She gave a TED talk on the subject in 2010. In this work she details the emergence of women as a powerful force of the American workplace.
Foreign Rosin, this shifting economy has allowed women to use their most gendered stereotypical strengths to succeed.
She is the author of God"s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America, published in September 2007. In 2009, she published a controversial article in The Atlantic entitled "The Case Against Breast-Feeding," questioning whether current social pressures in favor of breastfeeding were appropriate, and whether the science in support of the practice was conclusive. In 2009 she was nominated for a National Magazine Award for "Boy"s Life", a story about a young transgender girl.
Her stories have also been included in anthologies of Best American Magazine Writing 2009 and Best American Crime Reporting 2009.
On February 27, 2012, following the death of children"s author January Berenstain, Rosin wrote an article critical of the Berenstain Bears series of books and said "good riddance" to the beloved children"s author After negative public reaction to her use of the phrase "good riddance," Rosin issued an apology.
