As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall.

She entered Princeton University at the age of 17 and received her bachelor of arts summa cum laude in English in 1991 having studied with J. "


State of Georgia
After signing a development deal with ABC Family in 2008 Weiner wrote a pilot for a half-hour sitcom with producer Jeff Greenstein (Desperate Housewives) originally called The Great State of Georgia and starring a plus-sized young woman who aspires to be a Broadway star.

She is based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Jennifer Weiner (born March 28 1970) is an American writer television producer and former journalist.