Background
Gentile grew up in Washington, District of Columbia, and graduated from Harvard in 1996.
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Olivia Gentile
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Harvard University; Columbia University.
Career
Her first book,, was published in April 2009 by Bloomsbury United States of America and tells the true story of Phoebe Snetsinger, a housewife and cancer survivor from Saint Louis who saw more bird species than anyone else in history. She earned an Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing from Columbia in 2003. She was a reporter for The Hartford Courant (1999–2001) and The Rutland Herald (1996–1999).
Gentile supported herself while writing by working as a part-time assistant to a federal judge in Brooklyn, the Honorary
Raymond J. Dearie.
In January 2008, Gentile married Andy Borowitz, the comedian and writer whose main outlet is the popular website The Borowitz Report. They live in New York City but spend much of their time upstate, in the rural Hudson Valley.
In a prepublication review, the scientist and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond, wrote of,
On April 15, 2009, was favorably reviewed in The Christian Science Monitor: "That Snetsinger flew the coop was both a point of pride and a point of friction for her family, and Gentile does not cast judgment but simply describes what she sees. By documenting the tension between the obligation to others and the obligation to oneself, Gentile has written a book as much about the life of women as about a woman’s life.”.
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