Emily Mitchell

Emily Mitchell
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Born	(1975-04-26) April 26, 1975 London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	American and British
Period	contemporary
Genre	literary fiction

Emily Mitchell is an Anglo-American novelist. Her first novel, "The Last Summer of the World", was published by WW Norton 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.

Her writing has appeared in The Indiana Review, AGNI, The Nation, and The Utne Reader. 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). She resided in San Francisco, California. She currently has a position in the English Dept. at West Virginia University.

External links

"The Last Summer of the World"

• Publishers Information
• Book Website

Reviews of "The Last Summer of the World"

• Publisher's Weekly
• Boston Globe
• New York Sun

"Five Serrated Dreams" (short story)

• http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2005/mitchell.html
• Young Lions Award (New York Public Library): http://www.support.nypl.org/younglions/young-lions-fiction-award.html