Aimee Liu's Books
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Apr.26.2011
After the release of author Aimee Liu’s memoir Gaining—about her recovery from an eating disorder—she received an outpouring of letters from people similarly struggling with ED, and from others who wanted to share their stories of recovery. Liu was struck by the diversity of voices and the eloquence with which these letter-writers shared their pain and triumph as they began to...
Apr.23.2011
“I think a book of letters would be so helpful for everyone, from those completely isolated by e.d. to those individuals less controlled but nonetheless influenced. It would be so therapeutic, in my opinion, to be able to literally read along through the stages of recovery. And personally, it would make me much more optimistic in my path toward recovery, truly knowing that it...
May.01.2010
An interpretation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw as metafiction.
Apr.15.2010
The joys of getting an MFA in Bennington's low-residency MFA program -- after 50!
Nov.28.2007
In For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance twenty-seven gifted authors write personal essays about how body image has colored, changed or enriched their lives...or how life’s events have changed their body image. Why is it that with everything women have accomplished, we still struggle with our feelings about our bodies? Perhaps it’s...
Feb.22.2007
Thirty years after Liu penned Solitaire documenting her teenage experience with anorexia nervosa, she recounts her midlife relapse and recovery. Liu exposes many myths surrounding eating disorders, with a combination of research and in-depth interviews with other former anorexics and bulimics.
Aimee Liu's memoir Solitaire, America's first first- person account of a young...
Dec.21.1979
SOLITAIRE A Memoir of Anorexia Originally published when Liu was just 25, Solitaire is America's first memoir of anorexia. Liu describes her battles with food, weight, and alienation, in and out of the modeling profession, as a teenager of the sixties.
Writers Reflect on their Dreams of Youth & the Reality of Age
Featuring essays by Malachy McCourt, Joyce Maynard, Alan Dershowitz, Eileen Goudge and more
About Aimee
Aimee Liu is the author of GAINING: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, published by Warner Books on February 22, 2007. Drawing on her own history of anorexia as well as interviews with more than forty other former anorexics and bulimics, Liu picks...
Causes Aimee Liu Supports
PEN USA, Academy for Eating Disorders, Women for Women, UNICEF, Amnesty International