Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau
Language English
Citizenship American
Notable works The Professor's Daughter, Searching for Zion
Years active 2005-present
Spouse Victor LaValle
Website
www.emilyraboteau.com

Emily Raboteau is an American fiction writer, essayist, and City College of New York professor.

Early life

Raboteau grew up in New Jersey.[1] She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and an MFA from New York University.[2]

Career

Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Oxford American, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Short Stories,[3] Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Mystery Stories and Best African American Essays. She has received the Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[3][4]

Her first novel The Professor's Daughter was published in 2005.[5] Her second book, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, a work of creative nonfiction, was published in 2013.

Personal life

Raboteau is married to novelist Victor LaValle and lives in New York City.[6] They have two children.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Raboteau, Emily (31 August 2016). "New York Playgrounds I Have Known". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Emily Raboteau Wins the International Flash Fiction Competition". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 16 November 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 "The Structure of Bubbles". Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  4. ↑ "NEA Writers' Corner". Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  5. ↑ "Macmillan Books: Author: Emily Raboteau, Macmillan :: Augusten Burroughs". Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  6. ↑ Scelfo, Julie (2010-04-07). "A Writer Gets a Home Office of Her Own". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
  7. ↑ Raboteau, Emily (28 December 2016). "The Rumpus Interview With Emily Raboteau". The Rumpus (Interview). Interviewed by Gina Prescott. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
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