Joanna Rakoff discusses new novel, "My Salinger Year"
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Channel: Bloomsbury Publishing · 2014 · Entertainment
Joanna Rakoff is a poet and the author of the novel A Fortunate Age, which won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers, was a New York Times Editors' Pick, a winner of the Elle Readers' Prize and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. As a journalist and critic, she has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Time Out, O:The Oprah Magazine. The BBC produced a radio documentary following her as she tracked down the writer of her favourite Salinger fan letter. She has degrees from Columbia University, University College, London and Oberlin College. Joanna Rakoff lives in Boston. www.joannasmithrakoff.com Writes Non-Fiction, Biography Author of My Salinger Year http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/my-salinger-year-9781408855508/
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