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Revision as of 19:32, 10 September 2023
Emily Mitchell | |
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| Born | April 26, 1975 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American and British |
| Education | Middlebury College Brooklyn College (MFA) |
| Period | contemporary |
| Genre | literary fiction |
Emily Mitchell (born April 26, 1975) is an Anglo-American writer. Her debut novel, The Last Summer of the World, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2007. It concerns the photographer Edward Steichen in the context of World War I and was a finalist for the 2008 Young Lions Award for fiction.
Life
She was educated at Middlebury College as an undergraduate (class of 1997) and lived for many years in New York City where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College (studying with Michael Cunningham).
Her writing has appeared in Guernica,[1] The Indiana Review, AGNI, The Nation, and The Utne Reader.[2]
She resided in San Francisco, California. She is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland.
Books
- The Last Summer of the World: A Novel W. W. Norton, 2007, ISBN 9780393247893
- Viral: Stories. W. W. Norton. 29 June 2015. ISBN 978-0-393-24537-0.[3]
References
- ^ "Four American Folktales". Guernicamag.com. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ "Mitchell, Emily - English Department - University of Maryland". English.umd.edu. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ Megan Labrise (29 June 2015). "Emily Mitchell:Author of VIRAL". Kirkus Reviews.
"The stories that I love the best are the stories that come into my mind in a month or even years after I've read them,"
External links
- University of Maryland - faculty page
- "Five Serrated Dreams" (short story)
- Young Lions Award (New York Public Library)
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- Novelists from London
- Middlebury College alumni
- 21st-century American women writers
- University of Maryland, College Park faculty
- Brooklyn College alumni
- Writers from San Francisco
- Novelists from New York (state)
- Novelists from Maryland