Rebecca "Maud" Newton is a writer, critic, and former lawyer born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She was raised in Miami, Florida.

Writing

Newton first came to attention as the founder of an early litblog. Her essays, critiques and short stories have appeared in a number of publications, including '' The New York Times Magazine'', ''

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'', The Wall Street Journal, '' Time'', ''

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'', '' The New York Times Book Review'', ''

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'', ''Catapult'', '' Bookforum'', '' Narrative Magazine'', '' The Awl'', '' Tin House'', and '' Humanities''. Her first book, the non-fiction ''Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation'', was published by Random House in 2022.

Personal life

Newton was born in Dallas and raised in a fundamentalist household in Miami by an evangelical mother and racist father. She attended college and law school at the University of Florida. She lives in New York City.

Awards and honors

In 2004, she received the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Award from the

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and in June 2008, she won second prize in the Narrative Magazine Love Story Contest. She was awarded the 2009 Narrative Prize Fiction, for her short story "When the Flock Changed."

References

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Newton's Official websiteNewton on America's Ancestry Craze in Harper'sPEN Ten with Maud Newton
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