The Collectors

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Winner of the 2021 PEN / Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for Essay Art, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career pieces from author, essayist, political activist, and “veteran muckraker” Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker) .Barbara Ehrenreich A self-proclaimed “myth buster by trade,” she has covered a wide range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is not afraid to plunge into intellectual waters that others consider too murky. Now, Had I Known brings together articles and excerpts from a long-range career that highlight Ehrenreich’s brilliance, social conscience, and wry wit. From Ehrenreich’s award-winning article “Welcome to Cancerland,” published shortly after he was diagnosed breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism on Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking pieces and that alter the worldview for more than four decades. His reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while his essays, opinion pieces, and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Time, Wall Street Journal and many more. Had I Known draws from the vast and varied collection of one of the most incisive thinkers in our country to create an essential volume.