Emily Mitchell

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name = Emily Mitchell


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birthdate = birth date and age|1975|4|26
birthplace = London, England, United Kingdom
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occupation = novelist
nationality = American and British
period = contemporary
genre = literary fiction
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Emily Mitchell is an Anglo-American novelist. Her first novel, "The Last Summer of the World", was published by WW Norton 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.

Her writing has appeared in The Indiana Review, AGNI, The Nation, and The Utne Reader. 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). She resided in San Francisco, California. She currently has a position in the English Dept. at West Virginia Univeristy.

Debut Work: "The Last Summer of the World"

External links

"The Last Summer of the World"
* [http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring08/033194.htm Publishers Information]
* [http://lastsummeroftheworldbook.googlepages.com/home Book Website] Reviews of "The Last Summer of the World"
* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6437104.html Publisher's Weekly]
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/06/17/in_a_world_at_war_an_artist_struggles_with_memory_desire/ Boston Globe]
* [http://www.nysun.com/article/56954 New York Sun] "Five Serrated Dreams" (short story)
* http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2005/mitchell.html
* Young Lions Award (New York Public Library): http://www.support.nypl.org/younglions/young-lions-fiction-award.html