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Who is Heather Havrilesky?
Heather Havrilesky is a humorist, author, and essayist. Heather Havrilesky currently contributes to Substack’s “Ask Polly” advice column. Heather is the author of Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir and the self-help book How to Be a Person in the World. She’s also the author of the essay collection What If This Were Enough?
Early Life and Childhood
Heather Havrilesky was born in the United States of America in 1970 in Durham, North Carolina. Heather’s age is 52.
Her father and mother gave birth to her in Durham, North Carolina, United States of America. Despite her celebrity, Heather has not revealed anything about her parents or siblings.
Education Details
Heather Havrilesky’s educational background is unavailable.
Professional Career
In 1996, Havrilesky was hired as a staff writer at Suck.com. Suck.com is a webzine that was one of the first ad-supported content sites on the internet.
Heather wrote the popular “Filler” comic strip for the site under the pen name Polly Esther in collaboration with artist Terry Colon. In May 2001, she began writing an advice column for Suck.
However, the site was shut down a month later. Heather began writing for Salon as their TV critic in 2003. In 2011, she became one of The Daily’s first columnists.
The Daily is the world’s first news app designed exclusively for the iPad. She left her position shortly after the app went live. The site was shut down by its parent company, News Corporation, in December 2012.
In 2001, Heather started a Dear Rabbit advice column on her personal blog. Heather pitched an Ask Polly advice column to The Awl in 2012, which ran as a weekly feature.
The column was first published in New York magazine in 2014. Currently, each column responds to a single letter asking for advice. Heather published her first book, Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir, in 2010.
The book is an autobiographical work about her childhood in Durham, North Carolina. In July 2016, her second book, How to Be a Person in the World, was released.
It included new Ask Polly advice columns as well as a selection of Heather’s most popular previously published columns. In 2018, she released her third book, What If This Were Enough? an essay collection.
Net Worth ad Salary
Heather Havrilesky earns an annual salary of $73,956.
She is a wealthy American essayist, author, and humorist with a net worth of $1,497,756.
Relationship Status
Heather Havrilesky married her husband Bill Sandova in 2006 after Bill sent her an email praising her work as a New York Magazine advice columnist.
They have two daughters. Heather shocked longtime readers in her new book “Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage” in 2022 by revealing she frequently “hates” her husband, Bill.
Her husband was compared to a “smelly heap of laundry” and a “snoring heap of meat” by the journalist. Despite this, Heather has stated that she does not intend to divorce Bill anytime soon.
Body Measurements
She is a woman of average height. Heather is 5 feet 6 inches tall ( Approx 1.68m).
Social Media
Her social media handles are unknown.
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Trivia
- Heather is a humorist, author, and essayist from the United States.
- She currently contributes to Substack’s “Ask Polly” advice column.
- She married her husband Bill Sandova in 2006 after Bill sent her an email praising her work as a New York Magazine advice columnist.
- She was born in the United States of America in 1970 in Durham, North Carolina.
- Heather is 5 feet 6 inches tall ( Approx 1.68m).
