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Margaret Scarf (née Klein; May 13, 1932) is an American writer, journalist, and lecturer.




Life and career


Her award-winning books and articles specialize in women, family relationships, and marriage in particular, including the best-selling books Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women (Doubleday, 1980) and Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage (Random House, 1987). She is a former Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, and at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale. She was a Contributing Editor to The New Republic, and a member of the advisory board of the American Psychiatric Press.
Maggie Scarf resided in Sag Harbor, New York with her husband Herbert Scarf (1930–2015), economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. They have three daughters: Susan Scarf Merrell, Martha Samuelson, and Betsy S. Stone. She has eight grandchildren.




Public and media appearances


Scarf has lectured widely and made several television appearances (The Oprah Winfrey Show, five times; The Phil Donahue Show; The David Letterman Show; CBS News; Good Morning America; The Today Show; and radio shows including the Larry King Show.) She has been interviewed extensively on radio and for magazines and newspapers.
As of 2014, she blogs for Psychology Today.




Bibliography


Body, Mind, Behavior, New Republic Press, 1976, ISBN 0440307651
Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women, Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1980, ISBN 0345471733
Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage, Random House, 1987, ISBN 039455485X
Intimate Worlds: How Families Thrive and Why They Fail, Ballantine Books, 1997, ISBN 0345406672
Meet Ben Franklin, Random House Books for Young Readers, 2002, ISBN 0375815244
Secrets, Lies, Betrayals: How the Body Holds the Secrets of a Life, and How to Unlock Them, Ballantine Books, 2005; Reprint edition. ISBN 0345481178
September Songs: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years, Riverhead, 2009, ISBN 978-1594483998
The Remarriage Blueprint: How Remarried Couples and Their Families Succeed or Fail, Scribner, 2013, ISBN 978-1439169544




Representative Articles


Brain researcher Jose Delgado asks: What Kind of Humans Would We Like to Construct? New York Times, Nov 15, 1970
The Man Who Gave Us 'Inferiority Complex,' 'Compensation,' `Overcompensation.' New York Times, Feb 28, 1971.
Oh, For a Decent Night's Sleep! New York Times, Oct 21, 1973.
From Joy to Depression. New York Times, Apr 24, 1977.
The More Sorrowful Sex. Psychology Today, April 1979.
The Mind of the Unabomber. The New Republic, Jun 10, 1996.




Honors, Fellowships, and Prizes


Ford Foundation Fellow, 1973–74
Nieman Fellow in Journalism (Harvard) 1975-76
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1977–78
Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, 1978–79
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1985–86
Grantee, The Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc., 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation, 1971
First Prize, National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation, 1974
National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation, 1977
Connecticut United Nations Award: Outstanding Connecticut Women, 1987
Connecticut Psychological Association: Certificate of Appreciation, "in recognition of her contribution to the public understanding of psychological knowledge," 1988
Certificate of Commendation, Robert T. Morse Writer's Competition, American Psychiatric Association, 1997
Honoree of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, 1998




Professional memberships


PEN Writer's Association
Connecticut Society of Psychoanalytic Psychologists
The Elizabethan Club of Yale University




References






External links


Maggie Scarf's Official Website (archived version)
Why Second Marriages are More Perilous Time Magazine, October 4, 2013
The Remarriage Blueprint The Huffington Post, January 23, 2014
Brave New World The New Republic, July 12, 1999

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