Danielle Henderson (writer) facts for kids

Danielle Henderson is an American writer. She is famous for creating the "Feminist Ryan Gosling" blog and a book with the same name. She has also written for popular TV shows like Difficult People, Maniac, and Divorce.

Growing Up and School

Danielle Henderson grew up in Warwick, New York. She lived with her mother first, and then with her grandmother from age 10. Danielle and her brother were among the few Black children in their mostly white town.

She went to college for a year but then took a break. During that time, she lived in Anchorage, Alaska, and even worked for the United Nations. In 2008, she decided to go back to school. She earned her first degree from the University of Rhode Island in 2011. Later, she got her master's degree in women and gender studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her Writing Career

The "Feminist Ryan Gosling" Blog

In October 2011, Danielle Henderson started a Tumblr blog called "Feminist Ryan Gosling". She got the idea from a popular internet trend that used pictures of actor Ryan Gosling. Danielle's blog posts showed a picture of Ryan Gosling with the words "hey girl" at the top. Below that, she added text about feminist ideas she was learning in her master's degree program.

The very next day, her blog became super popular! Websites like Jezebel, GQ, and Time wrote about it. In August 2012, she turned her blog into a book. She stopped adding new posts to the blog in April 2013.

Writing for Magazines and TV

From 2012 to 2013, Danielle worked as a writer and editor for Rookie magazine. She also wrote TV show summaries for Vulture. In 2014, she became the arts and culture editor for The Stranger newspaper. Later, she worked as a culture editor for Fusion Media Group.

A TV agent saw her writing on Vulture and suggested she try writing for television. Danielle then started writing for TV shows. She has written for shows like Difficult People, Divorce, Maniac, and Dare Me.

Her Book: The Ugly Cry

On June 8, 2021, Danielle released her memoir called The Ugly Cry. A memoir is a book about a person's own life experiences. This book talks a lot about growing up with her unique grandmother and other important moments in her life until she was 18.

Where She Lives Now

As of 2021, Danielle Henderson lives in upstate New York.

Books She Has Written

• 2012. Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude, published August 14, 2012, by Running Press. ISBN: 978-0762447367
• 2021. The Ugly Cry: A Memoir, published June 8, 2021, by Viking Press. ISBN: 978-0525559351

Awards

• 2019 – She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Adapted for her work on the TV show Maniac.