American novelist
Kira Lily Peikoff (; born May 21, 1985)
[1]
[2] is a journalist and novelist, based in
New York City .
[3]
Personal life
Kira Peikoff was born to
Objectivist scholar
Leonard Peikoff and his then-wife Cynthia Pastor Peikoff, a
psychotherapist in private practice.
[2] She was named after the
protagonist of
Ayn Rand 's
We the Living .
[4]
[5] She grew up in
Irvine , California, being
home-schooled
[4] and then attending
Woodbridge High School .
[6] In 2007, she graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts
honours degree in
journalism from
New York University .
[7]
Career
During her
undergraduate
internships , Peikoff wrote about
Congressional politics for the
Orange County Register
[6]
[8] and about business and technology for
Newsday .
[9]
[10] She also researched
feature stories for
New York magazine
[11] and wrote for the New York
Daily News .
[12]
After graduation, Peikoff worked as an editorial assistant for
Henry Holt and Company and for
Random House . Since 2013, she has worked as a
freelance journalist on health and science, having written articles for
The New York Times ,
[13]
[14]
Slate ,
[15]
Salon ,
[16]
Cosmopolitan ,
[17]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ,
[18]
Psychology Today
[19] and
The Hastings Center Report .
[20]
When Peikoff was 13 years old,
Gone with the Wind inspired her to become a novelist.
[21] In 2008, Peikoff finished writing her
debut novel , Living Proof ,
[6] having taken a year off after university to write it,
[22] and in February 2012, it was published.
[23] The book, inspired by her disgust toward President
George W. Bush 's opposition to
stem-cell research,
[6] is a
dystopian
thriller set in a future time when
embryo destruction is legally considered
first-degree murder and
fertility clinics are severely
regulated by the government. The novel received largely positive reviews, among them a mildly positive review by
Publishers Weekly ,
[24] a mildly negative review by
Kirkus Reviews ,
[23] and positive reviews by Suspense Magazine
[25] and
Mystery Scene magazine.
[26]
No Time to Die , a second biomedical thriller by Peikoff, was published in September 2014, receiving mildly positive reviews by the
Romantic Times
[27] and
NJ.com .
[28]
Peikoff is a member of the
International Thriller Writers ,
Mystery Writers of America , and the
American Society of Journalists and Authors .
[29]
She is also the editor-in-chief of the science publication Leaps.org.
Bibliography
Living Proof (2012)
No Time to Die (2014)
Die Again Tomorrow (2015)
Mother Knows Best (2019)
References
^
"Kira Peikoff" .
Twitter . May 21, 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
^
a
b
"Kira Peikoff, Matthew Beilis" . The New York Times . June 17, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"About the Author" . Kira Peikoff. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
a
b Ybarra, Michael J. (August 16, 1998).
"Preserving the Fountainhead" .
Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
^
"Could you define your reasons for choosing Kira as your daughter's name?" . Leonard Peikoff. April 2, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
a
b
c
d Lopez, Alicia.
"Former Woodbridge student pens suspense novel" . Orange County Register . August 21, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^ Heller, Anne C. (2009),
Ayn Rand and the World She Made , New York:
Doubleday , p. 413,
ISBN
978-0-385-51399-9 ,
OCLC
229027437 .
^ Peikoff, Kira.
"Law keeps eyes on sex criminals" . Orange County Register . August 21, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^ Peikoff, Kira.
"Big savings for the nest" . Newsday . February 23, 2006. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
^ Peikoff, Kira.
"Gas retailers deny big profit" . Newsday . May 1, 2006. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
^ Peikoff, Kira.
"Israeli Egg Farming" . New York . October 24, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"Articles by Kira Peikoff" . Daily News . Retrieved November 30, 2014 .
^ Brandom, Russell (December 30, 2013).
"A Times reporter took three genetic tests and got three wildly different answers" .
The Verge .
Vox Media . Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
^ Peikoff, Kira.
"Fearing Punishment for Bad Genes" . The New York Times . April 7, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"Kira Peikoff" . Slate . Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"Kira Peikoff" . Salon . Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"Kira Peikoff" . Cosmopolitan .
Hearst Corporation . Retrieved November 30, 2014 .
^ Peikoff, Kira.
"Personhood vs. stem cell research" . The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . May 25, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"Experts: Kira Peikoff" . Psychology Today . Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
^ Peikoff, Kira.
"Beware the Biomarkers for Criminal Behavior"
Archived May 12, 2014, at the
Wayback Machine . The Hastings Center Report . July/August 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"Gives Voice to Those Who Have None: An Interview with Kira Peikoff" (PDF) . Suspense . February 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2014 .
^ Petit, Zachary.
"Important Writing Lessons From First-Time Novelists" .
Writer's Digest . January 7, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
^
a
b
"Living Proof" . Kirkus Reviews . December 19, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^
"Living Proof"
Archived May 12, 2014, at the
Wayback Machine . Publishers Weekly . December 12, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
^ Lignor, Amy (February 2012).
"Suspense Magazine Review of "Living Proof" by Kira Peikoff" (PDF) . Suspense . Retrieved November 24, 2014 .
^ Mack, Debbi.
"Books: Living Proof by Kira Peikoff" . Mystery Scene . KBS Communications. Retrieved November 24, 2014 .
^ Ayers, Jeff.
"No time to die" . RT Book Reviews . Retrieved September 21, 2014 .
^ Cutler, Jacqueline (November 23, 2014).
"Montclair writer's thriller focuses on staying forever young" . NJ.com . New Jersey On-Line. Retrieved November 30, 2014 .
^
"Search Members Results" . American Society of Journalists and Authors. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
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