Ariel Horn | |
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Nationality | American |
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Millburn High School University of Pennsylvania New York University ( MA) |
Relatives | Dara Horn (sister) |
Ariel Horn Levenson is an American novelist and teacher. [1] She is known for turning her job-finding difficulties as a new college graduate into a humorous novel: Help Wanted, Desperately.
Horn grew up in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, where she attended Millburn High School. [2] She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian. [3][ verification needed] She studied for a Master of Arts degree in English at New York University. [4] Horn has taught English at the Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, and at a public charter school in upper Manhattan. [5] Horn's sister, Dara Horn is also a novelist. [6]
Horn has been a resident of Livingston, New Jersey. [7]
In the spring of 2002 Horn was in her senior year at the University of Pennsylvania and was being interviewed for an entry-level job with a New York management consulting firm. [8]
Help Wanted, Desperately, follows a thinly fictionalized version of Horn, Alexa Hoffman, through "a roller coaster ride of job interviews" as a college senior. [3] Her plan is to avoid going home to Short Hills, New Jersey after graduation at any cost. Her Plan B if all else fails is to go teach English on the Pacific island of Majuro. [3] The novel "hilariously chronicle(s)" a series of job interviews that include earthworm breeder, Broadway actress, and deodorant sniffer. [9] The novel was published by Harper Collins in 2004. [10] [11] [12] [13] Booklist wrote that Horn used her "own job-interviewing experiences for comic effect." [14]
Ariel Horn | |
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Occupation |
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Nationality | American |
Education |
Millburn High School University of Pennsylvania New York University ( MA) |
Relatives | Dara Horn (sister) |
Ariel Horn Levenson is an American novelist and teacher. [1] She is known for turning her job-finding difficulties as a new college graduate into a humorous novel: Help Wanted, Desperately.
Horn grew up in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, where she attended Millburn High School. [2] She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian. [3][ verification needed] She studied for a Master of Arts degree in English at New York University. [4] Horn has taught English at the Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, and at a public charter school in upper Manhattan. [5] Horn's sister, Dara Horn is also a novelist. [6]
Horn has been a resident of Livingston, New Jersey. [7]
In the spring of 2002 Horn was in her senior year at the University of Pennsylvania and was being interviewed for an entry-level job with a New York management consulting firm. [8]
Help Wanted, Desperately, follows a thinly fictionalized version of Horn, Alexa Hoffman, through "a roller coaster ride of job interviews" as a college senior. [3] Her plan is to avoid going home to Short Hills, New Jersey after graduation at any cost. Her Plan B if all else fails is to go teach English on the Pacific island of Majuro. [3] The novel "hilariously chronicle(s)" a series of job interviews that include earthworm breeder, Broadway actress, and deodorant sniffer. [9] The novel was published by Harper Collins in 2004. [10] [11] [12] [13] Booklist wrote that Horn used her "own job-interviewing experiences for comic effect." [14]