Maud Newton
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Rebecca "Maud" Newton is a writer, critic, and former lawyer born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She was raised in Miami, Florida.
Writing
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] including The 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] and Humanities.[16][17]
Her first book, the non-fiction Ancestor 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 by The New Yorker,[21] NPR,[22] The Washington Post,[23] The Boston Globe,[24] Time,[25] Esquire,[26] Garden & Gun,[27] Entertainment Weekly,[28] and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[29]
Personal life
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 the University of Florida.[34][35] She lives in New York City.[36][33]
Awards and honors
In 2004, she received the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Award from the City College of New York and 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 book Ancestor Trouble was a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre.[37]
Writings
- Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation Random House (2022)
References
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External links
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- Newton's Official website
- Newton on America's Ancestry Craze in Harper's
- PEN Ten with Maud Newton
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- Living people
- American bloggers
- American literary critics
- American women literary critics
- University of Florida alumni
- 1971 births
- American women bloggers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Writers from Dallas
- Writers from Miami
- American women non-fiction writers
- Fredric G. Levin College of Law alumni