Elizabeth Gaffney

Elizabeth Gaffney

Elizabeth Gaffney (born in New York, NY, December 22, 1966) is an American novelist. She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She is also the editor at large of the quarterly magazine A Public Space and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for sixteen years, under George Plimpton. She has translated three books from German. Her first novel, "Metropolis" was published in 2005.

External links

* [http://www.elizabethgaffney.net/ Author homepage with interactive map of 19th-century New York City]
* [http://www.apublicspace.org/ Website of A Public Space]


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