Alice Kahn

Alice Joyce Kahn (born 1943[1]) is an American nurse practitioner and humorist who popularized the slang word "yuppie", describing young urban professionals,[2] and also the term "Gourmet Ghetto", naming an influential retail neighborhood of Berkeley, California.[3][4][5] Kahn was a regular contributor to East Bay Express, a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, and a syndicated columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She has also written for Mother Jones magazine and the San Jose Mercury News. A self-professed "sit-down comic" noted for her "Jewish-American wit",[6] her understated brand of humor has been compared to that of Erma Bombeck.[7][8] The Chicago Reader commented on her liberal political viewpoint, writing that she was "Joan Rivers with a social conscience."[9]

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  2. ^ Finke, Nikki (May 11, 1987). "Claimed Creator of 'Yuppie' Comes to Terms with 'Gal'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Wood, Cirrus (February 26, 2008). "Ask Nosh: Where did the term 'Gourmet Ghetto' come from?". Berkeleyside. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  4. ^ Petersen, Clarence (March 28, 1986). "The Wacky Side of Chicago-born, Berkeley-bred Alice Kahn". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  5. ^ Jones, Kevin L. (August 2, 2019). "Back from the Dead: Alice Kahn on the day she interviewed Jerry Garcia". Datebook. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
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  8. ^ Russell, Candice (June 14, 1987). "Chronicle of Crazy Times Punctures the Pompous". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  9. ^ Cody's Books (November 1988). "Authors at Cody's". Folio. KPFA. p. 4.