Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the
Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and
career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political
activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New
Yorker).
A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered
an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and
is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky.
Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging
career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social
consciousness, and wry wit.
From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland,"
published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her
groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in 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, and worldview-altering pieces for over four
decades. Her 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 her essays, op-eds and feature
articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the
New York Times Magazine, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and many
more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of
our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.
