Emily Prager

Emily Prager
Occupation Author, journalist, teacher; former actress
Alma mater Brearley School, Barnard College

Emily Prager is an American author and journalist. Prager grew up in Texas, Taiwan, and Greenwich Village, New York City. She is a graduate of the Brearley School, Barnard College and has a master's degree in Applied Linguistics.[1]

Career

Prager starred in The Edge of Night on television in the 1960s, and was a contributing editor of The National Lampoon, a performer on The National Lampoon Radio Hour and worked and appeared in the High School Yearbook Parody. Her also work appeared in Titters, A Book of Humor by Women. She was a writer for, and briefly a cast member of Saturday Night Live. Although she did not appear in the single episode for which she was credited as a featured player, she had appeared uncredited in five previous episodes.[2]

She was a writer-performer in the cult film Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and Robert Longo's Arena Brains. Her works include a compendium of her humor writing, In the Missionary Position, the acclaimed short story collection A Visit From the Footbinder and Other Stories, the novels Eve's Tattoo, Clea and Zeus Divorce, and Roger Fishbite, and a memoir, Wuhu Diary. She has been a columnist for the Village Voice,[3] The New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, Penthouse, and The Guardian.[4] She is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and in the year 2000, she received the first online journalism award for commentary given by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She taught at the Shanghai American School (Pudong Campus) in Shanghai, China. Dana Elcar was her stepfather. She has one adopted daughter, Lulu Prager.

Journalism

Writings

  • A Visit From the Footbinder and Other Stories
  • Clea and Zeus Divorce
  • Eve's Tattoo
  • "On being a trick-ass-ho"
  • In the Missionary Position
  • The National Lampoon - Contributing Editor
  • Titters, A Book of Humor by Women
  • Roger Fishbite
  • Wuhu Diary

Television and filmography

Accolades

References

  1. ↑ A Visit From the Footbinder, Simon & Schuster, 1982.<-- ISSN/ISBN needed, if any -->
  2. ↑ Specifically, 21 May 1977, 19 Nov 1977, 10 Dec 1977, 22 Apr 1978, and 10 Oct 1981.
  3. ↑ author biography, Roger Fishbite, Vintage, 1999
  4. ↑ "Emily Prager". Random House.


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