After the death of her husband of 68 years to COVID-19, writer Hilma Wolitzer says it took months before she could face a blank page in the silence of her apartment. But when the first few words of a ...

Restarting a significant literary career that's 13 books long is hard at any age. Doing so after an eight-year gap, at 91, is especially inspiring. Then add your husband dying from Covid-19 while you ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hilma Wolitzer about her collection of short stories, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, which illuminates the complexity of motherhood and marriage. What ...

At the age of 9, Hilma Wolitzer published a poem in a journal sponsored by the New York City Department of Sanitation. Then she took a 35-year hiatus, publishing her next work at 44. “My pen name was ...

Throughout her more than 50-year career Hilma Wolitzer has excelled at domestic dramas, focusing on the hilarious or heartbreaking moments that can make or break a marriage — or a woman’s sanity. As ...

When The Post asked me to interview my mother, Hilma Wolitzer, to coincide with the publication of her short story collection, “Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket,” I was very pleased, because ...

At 76, Hilma Wolitzer cannot afford another 12-year writer’s block like the one that ended recently with the publication of The Doctor’s Daughter, her seventh novel. “If it takes me that long again,” ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: What men ...