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Maud Newton
BornMay 21, 1971(1971-05-21)(age53)
Dallas,Texas, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Florida
Occupation(s)Writer and critic
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Rebecca "Maud" Newtonis a writer, critic, and former lawyer born inDallas,Texasin 1971. She was raised inMiami,Florida.

Writing[edit]

Newton first came to attention as the founder of an early litblog.[1][2]

Her essays, critiques and short stories have appeared in a number of publications,[3]includingThe New York Times Magazine,[4]Esquire,[5]The Wall Street Journal,[6]Time,[7]Harper's Magazine,[8]The New York Times Book Review,[9]Harper's Bazaar,[10]Catapult,[11]Bookforum,[12]Narrative Magazine,[13]The Awl,[14]Tin House,[15]andHumanities.[16][17]

Her first book, the non-fictionAncestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation,was published by Random House in 2022.[18][19][20]The book was named one of the best of 2022 byThe New Yorker,[21]NPR,[22]The Washington Post,[23]The Boston Globe,[24]Time,[25]Esquire,[26]Garden & Gun,[27]Entertainment Weekly,[28]andThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[29]

Personal life[edit]

Newton was born in Dallas and raised in a fundamentalist household in Miami by an evangelical mother and racist father.[4][30][31][11][32][33]

She attended college and law school at theUniversity of Florida.[34][35]She lives in New York City.[36][33]

Awards and honors[edit]

In 2004, she received the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Award from theCity College of New Yorkand in June 2008, she won second prize in the Narrative Magazine Love Story Contest.[16]She was awarded the 2009 Narrative Prize Fiction, for her short story "When the Flock Changed."[13]

Her bookAncestor Troublewas a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre.[37]

References[edit]

  1. ^Orr, David (October 3, 2004)."Where to Find Digital Lit".The New York Times.RetrievedJanuary 25,2015.
  2. ^Dumenco, Simon (October 30, 2003)."Blog Blog Blog".New York.RetrievedJanuary 25,2015.
  3. ^"Site Read: We chat with the founders of three of our favorite websites".Entertainment Weekly.June 15, 2006. Archived fromthe originalon February 22, 2014.RetrievedApril 15,2008.
  4. ^abNewton, Maud (March 22, 2013)."Oy Vey, Christian Soldiers".The New York Times.RetrievedFebruary 11,2014.
  5. ^"My Father, My Tormentor".Esquire.March 22, 2022.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  6. ^Newton, Maud (April 6, 2022)."Learning About Ourselves From Genealogy".Wall Street Journal.ISSN0099-9660.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  7. ^"Digging Into My Family's Racist History Turned Up Truths America Is Still Wrestling With".Time.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  8. ^Newton, Maud (June 1, 2014)."America's Ancestry Craze".Harper's Magazine.Vol. June 2014.ISSN0017-789X.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  9. ^Newton, Maud (June 18, 2018)."Curious About Your Ancestry? Submit a DNA Swab, and a Big Grain of Salt".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  10. ^Newton, Maud."Maud Newton".Harper's BAZAAR.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  11. ^abNewton, Maud (September 7, 2017)."Catapult | TinyLetter of the Month: Maud Newton," Notes from the Child of a White Supremacist "".Catapult.RetrievedMay 27,2018.
  12. ^Newton, Maud."South of Sane | T. D. Allman's Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State"(review).Bookforum.No. Feb/Mar 2013.RetrievedJuly 17,2022.
  13. ^ab"Narrative Prize Winners".Narrative Magazine.RetrievedMarch 4,2011.
  14. ^Newton, Maud (December 26, 2016)."Fundamentalist Horror Film".The Awl.RetrievedMay 27,2018.
  15. ^Newton, Maud (January 14, 2013)."Some Company for Slow Writers".Tin HouseMagazine.RetrievedJuly 17,2022.
  16. ^abNewton, Maud (February 11, 2014)."Maud Newton Writing".maudnewton.com.RetrievedFebruary 11,2014.
  17. ^"Love Is a Four-Letter Word".[dead link]
  18. ^Berry, Lorraine (March 24, 2022)."Our tangled family trees in Maud Newton's 'Ancestor Trouble'".BostonGlobe.com.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  19. ^Arsenault, Kerri (March 29, 2022)."From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  20. ^Copeland, Libby."Review | When a family tree is rooted in racism".Washington Post.ISSN0190-8286.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  21. ^"The Best Books of 2022".The New Yorker.October 26, 2022.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  22. ^"Books We Love".NPR.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  23. ^Post, Washington (November 20, 2022)."50 notable works of nonfiction: The year's best memoirs, biographies, history and more".The Washington Post.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  24. ^Globe Staff, Boston."The best books of 2022 - The Boston Globe".BostonGlobe.com.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  25. ^"The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022".Time.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  26. ^Westenfeld, Adrienne (December 12, 2022)."The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022".Esquire.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  27. ^Gomez-Misserian, Gabriela (December 8, 2022)."The Best Southern Books of 2022".Garden & Gun.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  28. ^December 07, EW Staff; EST, 2022 at 05:34 PM."The best books of 2022".EW.com.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  29. ^Tyler, Leah."Best Southern books of 2022 reflect diversity of authors".The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.ISSN1539-7459.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.
  30. ^"Q&A: Maud Newton on why we're obsessed with genealogy".The Dallas Morning News.May 23, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon April 8, 2016.RetrievedMay 24,2015.
  31. ^"Investigating Our Ancestors".KERA (FM).May 19, 2014.RetrievedMay 24,2015.
  32. ^"Maud Newton couldn't ignore her family's racist history. So she published it".NPR.org.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  33. ^abRondon, Steban (May 11, 2022)."Sins of the father: Miami's Maud Newton reckons with her family's history".South Florida Media Network.RetrievedJuly 23,2022.
  34. ^"Amazon Book Review".amazonbookreview.com.RetrievedMay 27,2018.
  35. ^Newton, Maud (November 22, 2009)."Off the Shelf: Maud Newton's life – a novel, not a memoir".Los Angeles Times.RetrievedMay 27,2018.
  36. ^Newton, Maud (April 16, 2016)."Goodbye, Brooklyn! Hi, Queens, hiiiiiiii".maudnewton.com.RetrievedMay 27,2018.
  37. ^Varno, David (February 1, 2023)."NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022".National Book Critics Circle.RetrievedFebruary 3,2023.

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