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Katie Roiphe is the author of three non-fiction works, The Morning After: Fear, Sex and Feminism (1994), Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End (1997), Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles (2007), and one novel, Still She Haunts Me (2002)&mdash;an empathetic imagining of the relationship between Charles Dodgson (known as Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the real-life model for Dodgson's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She holds a Ph.D in English Literature from Princeton University, and is presently teaching at New York University. In addition, she regularly reviews books for Slate and The New York Times Book Review.

Her first book, The Morning After, was published while she was still a graduate student at Princeton. Its questions of responsibility in an era of date rape hysteria drew attention and courted controversy. The book was excerpted extensively in The New York Times Magazine.

In her latest book, Uncommon Arrangements, Roiphe looks at prominent pairings from the London literary scene from 1910 to 1939 to examine our notions of affection and attraction, and the plausibility of monogamy. Reviewing for The New York Times, Tina Brown hailed the book as a "perfect bedside book for an age like our own, when everything is known and nothing is understood." Salon's Rebecca Traister asked "has feminism's enfant terrible finally grown up?"--alluding to the less polemical, perhaps more mature, tack Roiphe had taken with the book to explore her favorite subject matter: sexual politics.

And, The New York Observer conceded Roiphe's success with the book. "Katie haters will be sorry to hear that it’s very absorbing," Alexandra Jacobs wrote, "she’s turned her attention to the past, specifically to the innards, the “oily mechanism,” of seven unconventional literary marriages in Edwardian England. In doing so, she’s produced a tidy little piece of scholarship that’s definitely preferable to any smug sexual-politics punditry".

In the spring of 2007, Roiphe was appointed as a professor in New York University's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program, within the school's department of Journalism.

She grew up in New York City and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her mother is the noted feminist writer, Anne Roiphe, whose novels include Up the Sandbox and Lovingkindness.