About Emily Mitchell
Born 1975. Emily Mitchell is an American novelist.
Emily Mitchell (born April 26, 1975) is an Anglo-American writer. Her debut novel, The Last Summer of the World, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2007. It concerns the photographer Edward Steichen in the context of World War I and was a finalist for the 2008 Young Lions Award for fiction.
Life She was educated at Middlebury College as an undergraduate (class of 1997) and lived for many years in New York City where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College (studying with Michael Cunningham).
Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Indiana Review, AGNI, The Nation, and The Utne Reader.
She resided in San Francisco, California. She is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland.
Books The Last Summer of the World: A Novel W. W. Norton, 2007,
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American writer
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Emily Mitchell was born on 26 April 1975 in London.
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Emily Mitchell is a novelist.
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