Anne Roiphe (born December 25, 1935) is an American writer and journalist.

She is best known as a first-generation feminist and author of the novel Up the Sandbox (1970), filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972.

[3][4] She graduated from the Brearley School in 1953 and received her Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1957.

[5] Over a four-decade career, Roiphe has proven so prolific that the critic Sally Eckhoff observed "tracing Anne Roiphe's career often feels like following somebody through a revolving door: the requirements of keeping the pace can be trying.

"[2] (Eckhoff described the writer as "a free-thinking welter of contradictions, a never-say-die feminist who's nuts about children").