A. G. Mojtabai had no formal literary training. When very young, Mojtabai began dissecting on her own, developing an intense interest in biology. Early in her schooling, she was tracked for science; while in high school, she interned for two summers at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory. She received a B.A. from Antioch College in 1958, concentrating on philosophy and mathematics. She married later, and lived in Iran, where her two children were born. The marriage ended in divorce.
Returning to the U.S., Mojtabai lectured in philosophy at Hunter College, receiving an M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1968. She worked as a librarian at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia from 1968 to 1970 and received an M.S. in library service in 1970. Thereafter, Mojtabai worked for six years as a librarian at the City College of New York. From 1976 to 1978, Mojtabai was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, and was Briggs-Copeland lecturer in English at Harvard from 1978-1983.
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