Margaret Morganroth Gullette is an internationally known age critic, essayist, activist, and prize-winning writer of nonfiction. Her latest book (2017, 2019), Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, won the 2018 award from the American Psychological Association for contributions to women and aging, and the 2018 Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars. Agewise won a 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award. Aged by Culture was chosen a Notable Book of the year by the Christian Science Monitor. Declining to Decline in 1998 won the Emily Toth award for the best feminist book on American popular culture. Her essay, AThe Contagion of Euphoria,@ won the Daniel Singer Millennial Prize 2008. She has also won the National League of American Pen Women, Virginia Liebeler Biennial Grant for Mature Women in Letters, 2005. Her essays have been cited as notable in Best American Essays, 2021, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2009, 2006, 2001, and 1991.
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