Caryl Rivers is an American novelist and journalist.
[1] Her 1984 novel Virgins was a New York Times Best Seller and sold millions of copies around the world.
[2][3] Her articles have appeared in major publications such as The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.
[3] In 1979 she and historian Howard Zinn were among a group of Boston University faculty members who defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.
[8] Rivers is also the author of several other books including the 1986 sequel to Virgins, Girls Forever Brave and True,[9] Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs[10] and Camelot, a novel set during the Kennedy administration.