Emily Barton
About Emily Barton
Emily & Tobias in Deborah's mini; photo © Tom
My first novel, The Testament of Yves Gundron (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000), was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Month, and received the Bard Fiction Prize. Brookland (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006) was also named a New York Times Notable Book, one of the twenty-five best 2006 works of fiction and poetry by the Los Angeles Times, and a 2007 selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, the oldest book club in the country. It was also long-listed for Dublin’s IMPAC prize. My fiction, criticism, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Story magazine, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Observer, Poetry magazine, Nextbook, and Bookforum. In 2006, I had the good fortune to receive both a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard/Radcliffe, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. I live in Kingston, New York, with my husband, fiction writer Thomas Israel Hopkins, and our son. Currently, I serve on the writing faculties of Princeton University, Yale University, and Bard College, and I’ve also taught writing at Eugene Lang College and the Chautauqua Institution.
Unfortunately, the Italian Mini pictured here is not my car, though you can kind of see my car through the window. The cute kid, I am happy to say, is mine.
About FSG
Farrar, Straus & Giroux was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus. The firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s books. Farrar, Straus & Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and Nobel Prizes in literature.
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