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][4][5][6]

Rivers is a professor of journalism at Boston University.^[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.^[7] In 2008 Rivers was awarded The Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement which is awarded to an individual for a lifetime of contribution to the journalism profession.^[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.^[11]

• Virgins
• Girls Forever Brave and True
• 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
• Camelot

• 2008, The Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement

• Official website
• Caryl Rivers at The Huffington Post