Mel Plaut is an American writer from New York City.[1][2]
Plaut ran a blog from 2005 to 2008 called "New York Hack" about her career as a New York City taxi driver.[3] In 2007, writing as Melissa, their book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab was published by Villard.[4] At the time of publication, women made up only about 200 of the 40,000 cab drivers in NYC.[4]
Plaut has written for The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and has had essays air on NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend America. They were educated at the University at Buffalo, the University of East Anglia,[5] the University of New Mexico (BA, 1997) and City University of New York-Hunter College (MUP).[6]
In 2016, Plaut was featured in the HBO documentary Suited, produced by Lena Dunham.[7] In 2017, Plaut married Katherine Anania and in 2019, published an essay in HuffPost about moving to rural Georgia and discovering Southern queer gun groups.[8][9]
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- ^ Lee, Rebecca (October 22, 2007). "Female Cabbie: 'I'm a bit of an anomaly'". ABC News.
- ^ Elizabeth, LeSure (January 23, 2006). "Female NYC Cabbie Blogs About Being a Hack". Associated Press. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ Chung, Jen (2005-11-02). "Melissa Plaut, Yellow Cab Driver". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 2006-03-17. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ a b Hayasaki, Erika (2007-09-04). "THE NATION New York cabbie turns her tales into a blog, and now a book". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ Powell, Michael (2006-02-26). "What Drives a New York Cabbie? The Stories". Washington Post. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ Minzesheimer, Bob (2007-08-27). "NYC Cabbie is on the Literary Meter". USA Today. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ Alexander, Neta (18 March 2016). "The 'Straight Jewish White Man' Making Bespoke Suits for New York's Queer". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ Plaut, Mel; Writer, Guest (17 March 2019). "I'm Nonbinary, Gay-Married And Just Moved To The Deep South. Here's Why I Got A Gun". HuffPost.
- ^ "Katherine Anania, Mel Plaut". The New York Times. 2017-10-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
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