Joanna rakoff author biography

American memoirist and novelist (b. 1972)

Joanna Rakoff (born May 8, 1972) is an American novelist and memoirist.

Joanna Rakoff is an American novelist and memoirist.

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Joanna Rakoff's novel A Fortunate Age won the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice, an Elle and Booklist Best Book of

Biography.

Early life

Rakoff was born in Nyack, New York, in 1972.^[1]

Education

Between 1990 and 1994, Rakoff studied English literature at Oberlin College in Ohio. Between 1994 and 1995, she completed an MA in English literature at UCL in London.^[1] In 1996 and 1997, she did a year of Ph.D.

coursework in English literature at CUNY Graduate Center, before dropping out to study writing at Columbia University, where she completed her MFA in 1998.^[1]

Life and career

In 1996, aged 23, Rakoff took a job at one of New York’s oldest literary agencies, Harold Ober Associates.

Unbeknownst to Rakoff, the agency looked after the interests of the notoriously reclusive writer J. D. Salinger. In her time at the agency Rakoff's responsibilities included responding to the large volume of fan mail that Salinger received.

Rakoff was inst