Lynn Z Bloom

Lynn Z. Bloom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing Emerita at the University of Connecticut, USA, where she taught rhetoric and composition studies research, autobiography, creative nonfiction, and women writers courses 1988-2015. She has written more than 25 books, including Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical (1972), Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times (2008) and The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively...See more

Lynn Z. Bloom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing Emerita at the University of Connecticut, USA, where she taught rhetoric and composition studies research, autobiography, creative nonfiction, and women writers courses 1988-2015. She has written more than 25 books, including Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical (1972), Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times (2008) and The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays (2008). She has served as President of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators, 1988-90 and chaired the Division of Teaching Writing and the Division of Prose Writing of the Modern Language Association. Among her numerous awards are two Fulbright Specialist appointments to New Zealand; research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Council of Teachers of English, and grants from the US Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture. "(Im)Patient" was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays , 2006. Her writings on food include "Consuming Prose: The Delectable Rhetoric of Food Writing" (2008); "Feeding Hunger: Three Things I Take for Granted About Food - and Shouldn't" (2011); "Feminist Culinary Autobiographies" (2017); and "Do I Have to Give Up Chocolate?" (2023). See less