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An Interview with Emily Barton

An Interview with Emily Barton E M I L Y B A R T O N Greg Martin an interview with EMILY BARTON Conducted by James Peacock mily Barton is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She was born in 1969 and grew up in New Jersey, where she attended Kent Place School, in Summit. She went to Harvard College, from which she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English literature, and went on to gain an M.F.A. in fiction writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Barton is the author of The Testament of Yves Gundron (2000), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Bard Fiction Prize, and Brookland (2006), which was also a New York Times Notable Book, as well as one of the twenty-five best works of fiction and poetry selected by the Los Angeles Times in 2006; it was a 2007 selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Her third novel, The Book of Esther, is to be published by Tim Duggan Books, a Crown imprint, in 2016. Barton has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

An Interview with Emily Barton

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Contemporary Literature , Volume 56 (1) – May 20, 2015
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E M I L Y B A R T O N Greg Martin an interview with EMILY BARTON Conducted by James Peacock mily Barton is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She was born in 1969 and grew up in New Jersey, where she attended Kent Place School, in Summit. She went to Harvard College, from which she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English literature, and went on to gain an M.F.A. in fiction writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Barton is the author of The Testament of Yves Gundron (2000), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Bard Fiction Prize, and Brookland (2006), which was also a New York Times Notable Book, as well as one of the twenty-five best works of fiction and poetry selected by the Los Angeles Times in 2006; it was a 2007 selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Her third novel, The Book of Esther, is to be published by Tim Duggan Books, a Crown imprint, in 2016. Barton has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts

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