Skip to content , or skip to search. They started spending most of their time together. Dworkin and Stoltenberg both considered themselves gay. It was Dworkin died on April 9 at the age of 58 in her bed in the Washington, D. Friends say Dworkin had loved their previous home, a Park Slope brownstone, but it had become difficult for her to manage its stairs because of severe osteoarthritis in her knees, exacerbated by years of obesity. Their big, bright apartment in D. Bush speechwriter David Frum and his wife, Danielle Crittenden.
They found common ground talking about how much they hated Bill Clinton and how they thought he was a rapist. Friends say Dworkin felt clear-headed enough to write for only a few hours a day, the toll of a lifetime of insomnia and all the pain medication she was taking for her knees, but Dworkin had just finished a proposal for a book of literary criticism.
I knew I was in the presence of somebody who had greatness. W hen most people think of Andrea Dworkin, they think of two things: overalls and the idea that all sex is rape. The Prisoner of Sex A victim of abuse as a child, briefly a prostitute as a young woman, Andrea Dworkin married a gay man and spent three decades fighting hypersexualized America.
She lost. By Ariel Levy. Andrea Dworkin, April 20, Photo: Elsa Dorfman.
