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Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach (born 1975) is an American writer. An editor at the journal ''n + 1'', he is the author of the 2011 novel ''The Art of Fielding''. Early life and education Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was an accountant and his mother the head of a Montessori school. Harbach graduated from Harvard University, where he befriended fellow writers and journalists Keith Gessen and Benjamin Kunkel. He received an Master of Fine Arts, MFA from the University of Virginia in 2004. ''n + 1'' In 2004, Mark Greif, Gessen, Harbach, Kunkel, and Marco Roth launched the literary journal ''n + 1''; Harbach had come up with the name as early as 1998. Harbach is both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on environmentalism, David Foster Wallace, and the Boston Red Sox. ''The Art of Fielding'' Harbach worked on his novel ''The Art of Fielding'' for nine years. The novel, set at Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, tells the story of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani (born January 9, 1955) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for ''The New York Times'' from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998. Early life and family Kakutani, a Japanese American, was born on January 9, 1955, in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the only child of Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani and his wife Keiko ("Kay") Uchida. Her father was born in Japan, her mother was a second-generation Japanese-American who was raised in Berkeley, California. Kakutani's aunt, Yoshiko Uchida, was an author of children's books. Kakutani received her bachelor's degree in English literature from Yale University in 1976, where she studied under author and Yale writing professor John Hersey, among others.. Career Kakutani initially worked as a reporter for ''The Washington Post'', and then from 1977 to 1979 for ''Time'' magazine, where Hersey had worked. In 1979, she joined ''The New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |