Background and Education
Roiphe grew up in New York City, daughter of noted feminist Anne Roiphe. She attended the all-female Brearley School, received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1990, and received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University in 1996.
Roiphe married attorney Harry Chernoff in 2001. They had one daughter, Violet; separated in 2005 (the year her father died), and later divorced.
She has two children and has defended being a single mother.
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