Emily Barton
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Emily Barton

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Emily Barton is the author of three novels: "Brookland" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2006), "The Testament of Yves Gundron" (FSG 2000), and "The Book of Esther," forthcoming from Tim Duggan Books in the June 2016. She has also written numerous reviews, short stories, and essays -- most recently, a review of Muriel Barbery's "The Life of Elves" for the New York Times Book Review, "The Once and Future Capital," a short story in The Massachusetts Review, and a long piece on "The Jazz Singer" for Threepenny Review. Barton has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, as well as winning the Bard Fiction Prize. She has taught creative writing at the graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, and taught undergraduate writers at Yale, Princeton, Smith, and Bard, among other places. She lives in Kingston, NY (the Once and Future Capital of New York State) with her family. Visit her online at http://emilybarton.com or http://facebook.com/barton.emily, or follow her on Twitter @embleybarton.
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