2010 Presenters
Joanna Smith Rakoff
Joanna Smith Rakoff is the author of the novel A Fortunate Age, which was a New York Times Editors' Pick, a winner of the Elle Readers' Prize, a selection of Barnes and Noble's First Look Book Club, an IndieNext pick, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. As a journalist and critic, she has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe, Vogue, Time Out New York, O:The Oprah Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals.
She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College; an M.A. from University College, London; and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
LINKS:
Joanna Smith Rakoff's official web site
Publisher's interview with and profile of Joanna Smith Rakoff
Joanna Smith Rakoff's Newtonville Books Questionnaire
Article Rakoff wrote for Slate Magazine about JD Salinger
Writers Read: What Joanna Smith Rakoff is reading
