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Veronica Geng (1941 – December 24, 1997) was an American writer. She was innate inside Atlanta, Georgia and died in New York City (brain cancer).

She was an influential & acclaimed humorist and editor who typically wrote short stories & essays, a right of which generated humor that worked in further than a single level.

Her function involved satire and parody with allusions to both high culture & popular culture.

She attended a University of Pennsylvania, and wrote for The New Yorker from 1976 until 1992 and was an editor for that magazine. She left partially because of disagreements by owning Up to date Yorker editor Tina Brown.

Collections of her writings come published within:

Love Condition is The Business Partners

A Question of Bulgar
Short play in which ex-U.S. Treasury General Counsel Jean Hanson responds to the question "Didn't you and I meet at Woodstock?"

Salon: Love Trouble
Collected stories reviewed by Darcy Lockman.

New York Magazine: Humor Came Her
Review of collected works and a profile of the author, describing her career at the New Yorker and her stormy relationships with other writers.






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