Joanna Rakoff’s memoir, My Salinger Year, chronicles her time working at one of the New York’s oldest literary agencies. It won wide acclaim and is an international bestseller. Her first novel, A Fortunate Age, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers. She is a freelance journalist and writes for major newspapers and publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Vogue. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

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