Joseph Prince McElroy[1] (born August 21, 1930) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
She is the daughter of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews; her father, Joseph Leftwich, was a translator and anthologizer of Yiddish poetry.
"[6] McElroy's writing is often grouped with that of William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon, due to the encyclopedic quality of his novels, especially Women and Men (1987).
Echoes of McElroy's work can be found in that of Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace.
McElroy's work often reflects a preoccupation with how science functions in American society;[7] Exponential, a collection of essays published in Italy in 2003, collects science and technology journalism written primarily in the 1970s and 1980s for the New York Review of Books.