1. Rebecca Makkai was born on April 20,1978 and is an American novelist and short story writer.
12 Facts About Rebecca Makkai
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Rebecca Makkai is best known for writing The Great Believers and I Have Some Questions for You, which have been positively received by critics and won awards such as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Libby Book Award.
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Rebecca Makkai is the daughter of linguistics professors Valerie Becker Makkai and Adam Makkai, a refugee to the US following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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Rebecca Makkai's paternal grandmother, Rozsa Ignacz, was an actress and novelist in Hungary.
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Rebecca Makkai's problematic legacy is a topic on which Makkai has written extensively in both fiction and essay form.
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Rebecca Makkai later earned a master's degree from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English.
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Rebecca Makkai's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, and Shenandoah.
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Rebecca Makkai's stories have been featured on Public Radio International's Selected Shorts and This American Life.
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Rebecca Makkai has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is on the MFA faculties of Bennington College and Northwestern University.
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Rebecca Makkai has taught at Lake Forest College and held the Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College in Wisconsin.
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Rebecca Makkai has two children and lives in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Rebecca Makkai met her husband, Jon Freeman, at Bread Loaf.