| | 3,234 (5,331) | 301 | 6,730 |  (3.78) | 3 | 0 | Rebecca Makkai is an author, based in the Chicago area. She holds as MA from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and a BA from Washington and Lee University. She was an elementary Montessori teacher for twelve years before becoming a writer. She is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. And she is the Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. She has had her short fiction published in such anthologies as The Pushcart Prize XLI, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, New Stories from the Midwest, and Best American Fantasy. She has a short story collection entitled Music for Wartime. She won the 2017 Pushcart prize for short fiction. Her first novel was entitled The Borrower. Her other novels include The Hundred-Year House and The Great Believers. She won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for fiction with her novel, The Great Believers. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Great Believers … (more) |
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Rebecca Makkai has 22 past events. (show)  REBECCA MAKKAI Music for wartimeChicago-based author Makkai (The Hundred Year House and The Borrower) discusses her acclaimed new book of 15 short stories that alternate in time between World War II and the present day. Ranging from comedy to tragedy to the surreal—and from the world of academia to war zones—the stories ask the question of what it means to be an artist in a brutal and sometimes ugly world.
Location: Street: 811 Elm Street City: Winnetka, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60093-2236 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  **OFFSITE** The Interview Show @ The Hideout ft Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai, Chicago-based author, appears on The Interview Show at The Hideout! Get tickets here! The Book Cellar will provide copies of Makkai's latest book, The Hundred Year House, at the event. The Interview Show, a talk show in a bar, features comedy, music and guests from every walk of life sharing their stories, worldviews and talents in a laid-back, intimate setting. Since the show began in February 2008, the show has featured such guests as actor Brian Dennehy, WTF podcaster Marc Maron,The Style Rookie Editor Tavi Gevinson, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, novelist Gillian Flynn and many more. Called one of the “40 Reasons to Love Chicago” by Chicago magazine, The Interview Show is held the first Friday of every month at The Hideout, as well as twice a year at Union Hall in Brooklyn.
Location: Street: 1354 West Wabansia City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60642 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Author Reading: Ann Packer in conversation with Rebecca Makkai Join two acclaimed fiction writers, Ann Packer and Rebecca Makkai as they discuss Ann's long-awaited new novel, The Children’s Crusade. Following the lives of one California family over the course of five decades, The Children’s Crusade maps how a troubled marriage impacts the adult children attempts to create successful families—and identities—of their own. Packer is the bestselling author of Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among other prizes and honors. She lives in San Carlos, CA. Rebecca Makkai is the author of the acclaimed novels The Hundred-Year House and The Borrower. Her work has frequently appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper's,McSweeney's, Tin House, Ploughshares, and the Iowa Review, and has aired on "This American Life." She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two daughters. Her forthcoming novel Music for Wartime will publish this summer. Women & Children First will be hosting a reading of Rebecca’s new novel in August.
Location: Street: 5233 N. Clark St. City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60640-2122 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)REBECCA MAKKAI The Hundred-Year House. Chicago-based writer Makkai, author of The Borrower, speaks about her latest, a novel about an estate north of Chicago (think Ragdale in Lake Forest) that was once an artists’ colony, a tale that zips back and forth in time from 1999 to 1955 and 1929. Location: Street: 811 Elm Street City: Winnetka, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60093-2236 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)  **OFFSITE** Cristina Henriquez & Rebecca Makkai @ Harold Washington Library Cristina Henriquez and Rebecca Makkai appear in conversation, discussing their work and the art of the written word. Presented by Chicago Public Library and The Society of Midland Authors. Henríquez’s new novel, The Book of Unknown Americans, was chosen by Amazon as the #1 novel from the first half of 2014, and it was a recent “Book of the Week” selection at Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine website. Henríquez’s previous books are The World in Half, and Come together, fall apart: A Novella and Stories, which was a New York TimesEditors’ Choice selection. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Makkai’s second novel was published this summer and titled The Hundred-Year House, is set on Chicago’s North Shore. Her first novel, The borrower, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. Her short fiction was chosen for The Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years.
The event will be held in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium.
Location: Street: 400 S State S City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60605 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Rebecca Makkai, "The Hundred-Year House" Come join us as Rebecca Makkai reads from her new novel, The Hundred-Year House. In this brilliantly conceived, ambitious, and deeply rewarding novel, Makkai unfolds a generational saga in reverse, leading the reader back in time on a literary scavenger hunt as we seek to uncover the truth about these strange people and this mysterious house. With intelligence and humor, a daring narrative approach, and a lovingly satirical voice, Rebecca Makkai has crafted an unforgettable novel about family, fate and the incredible surprises life can offer. Rebecca Makkai is a Chicago-based writer whose first novel, The Borrower, is a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. Her short fiction has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008), and appears regularly in journals like Harper's, Tin House, Ploughshares, and New England Review.
Location: Street: 4736-38 N Lincoln Ave City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60625 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai Rebecca MakkaiHelp welcome a Chicago area author with her story, set in the North Shore. It’s The Hundred-Year House, and author Rebecca Makkai is already making a name for herself with her engaging and thoroughly entertaining novel. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 at 7:00 PM Anderson's Bookshop Naperville | 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville Location: Street: Anderson's Bookshop Naperville Additional: 123 W Jefferson Ave City: Naperville, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60540 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Cause of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, The Borrower, was released in June 2011. It was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. It was translated into seven languages. Her short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and as well as in ″The Best American Nonrequired Reading″" 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 NEA fellowship. Her fiction has also appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, and Shenandoah. Her nonfiction has appeared in Harpers and on Salon.com and the New Yorker website. Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's Selected Shorts and This American Life. Her second novel, The Hundred-Year House, is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014, having received starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. It won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage. Her short story collection, Music for Wartime, was published by Viking in June 2015. A starred and featured review in Publishers Weekly said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story “Exposition,” within “the borders of the human heart”—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well.” The Kansas City Star wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai."
Her novel about the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Chicago, titled The Great Believers was published by Viking/Penguin Random House in June 2018. The Great Believers won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. It was also a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and won the LA Times Book Prize, the ALA Stonewall Award, and the Chicago Review of Books Award.  | |
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