The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate - Hardcover

Marjorie Williams was born in Princeton, NJ in 1958 and died in 2005. She is survived by her husband, Timothy Noah, senior writer at Slate, who edited this volume, and her children, Alice and Will.

"...offers many pleasures and surprises...this collection is a splendid memorial to an elegant prose stylist." -- The Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2005

"A master at capturing human spirit and character in print" -- Karen Algeo Krizman, Rocky Mountain News, November 11, 2005

"Her writing...stands out for what simmers just beneath, whether it's a passage of excavatory reporting or a personal, painful insight..." -- The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, November 28, 2005

"Piercing perceptiveness about the messy human beings lying beneath the portentous personas of great Washington figures" -- David Brooks, New York Times, November 6, 2005

"Williams's journalistic gifts include her delicious use of detail, wicked humor and a psychological insight..." -- The Washington Post, November 17, 2005

... what this book reveals is a woman...cheated by fate, but facing reality unflinchingly and asserting personal honor despite it all. -- David Brooks, The New York Times, November 6, 2005

...combines peerless political anthropology with heartbreaking insight into the complexities of family life and her own struggle with cancer. -- Newsweek, November 21, 2005

A fitting tribute... [Williams was] a master at capturing human spirit and character...readers...simply looking for great writing won't be disappointed. -- The Rocky Mountain News, November 11, 2005

We'ree lucky to have this collection to remind us of what we'll be missing with Marjorie Williams gone. -- The Buffalo News, November 13, 2005

Williams is so knowing about Washingtons folkways...that readers will feel they are sitting down with a world-class political storyteller. -- The Buffalo News, November 13, 2005