Maud Newton Explained

Maud Newton
Birth Place:Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Education:University of Florida
Occupation:Writer and critic

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Where to Find Digital Lit . David . Orr . 2004-10-03 . . 25 January 2015 . subscription.
  2. Blog Blog Blog . Simon . Dumenco . 2003-10-30 . . 25 January 2015 . subscription.
  3. Site Read: We chat with the founders of three of our favorite websites. Entertainment Weekly. June 15, 2006. 15 April 2008. February 22, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140222100000/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1204561,00.html. live.
  4. News: Oy Vey, Christian Soldiers . Newton . Maud . March 22, 2013 . . 11 February 2014 . subscription.
  5. Web site: 2022-03-22 . My Father, My Tormentor . 2022-07-23 . Esquire . en-us.
  6. News: Newton . Maud . 2022-04-06 . Learning About Ourselves From Genealogy . en-US . Wall Street Journal . 2022-07-23 . 0099-9660.
  7. Digging Into My Family's Racist History Turned Up Truths America Is Still Wrestling With . 2022-07-23 . Time . en.
  8. Newton . Maud . 2014-06-01 . America's Ancestry Craze . en . June 2014 . Harper's Magazine . 2022-07-23 . 0017-789X.
  9. News: Newton . Maud . 2018-06-18 . Curious About Your Ancestry? Submit a DNA Swab, and a Big Grain of Salt . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-07-23 . 0362-4331.
  10. Newton . Maud . Maud Newton . 2022-07-23 . Harper's BAZAAR . en-US.
  11. News: Catapult TinyLetter of the Month: Maud Newton, "Notes from the Child of a White Supremacist" . Maud . Newton . September 7, 2017 . Catapult . 27 May 2018.
  12. review . South of Sane T. D. Allman's Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State . Maud . Newton . Feb/Mar 2013 . . 2022-07-17.
  13. News: Narrative Prize Winners . . 4 March 2011.
  14. Web site: Fundamentalist Horror Film . Newton . Maud . December 26, 2016 . . 27 May 2018.
  15. Some Company for Slow Writers . Maud . Newton . 2013-01-14 . Tin House Magazine . 2022-07-17.
  16. Web site: Maud Newton Writing . maudnewton.com . Maud . Newton . February 11, 2014 . February 11, 2014 .
  17. News: Love Is a Four-Letter Word .
  18. Web site: Lorraine . Berry . March 24, 2022 . Our tangled family trees in Maud Newton's 'Ancestor Trouble' . 2022-07-23 . BostonGlobe.com . en-US.
  19. News: Arsenault . Kerri . 2022-03-29 . From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-07-23 . 0362-4331.
  20. News: Copeland . Libby . Review When a family tree is rooted in racism . en-US . Washington Post . 2022-07-23 . 0190-8286.
  21. 2022-10-26 . The Best Books of 2022 . 2023-02-03 . The New Yorker . en-US.
  22. Web site: Books We Love . 2023-02-03 . NPR . en-US.
  23. News: Post . Washington . November 20, 2022 . 50 notable works of nonfiction: The year's best memoirs, biographies, history and more . . February 3, 2023.
  24. Web site: Globe Staff . Boston . The best books of 2022 - The Boston Globe . 2023-02-03 . BostonGlobe.com . en-US.
  25. The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 . 2023-02-03 . Time . en.
  26. Web site: Westenfeld . Adrienne . 2022-12-12 . The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 . 2023-02-03 . Esquire . en-US.
  27. Web site: Gomez-Misserian . Gabriela . 2022-12-08 . The Best Southern Books of 2022 . 2023-02-03 . Garden & Gun . en-US.
  28. Web site: December 07 . EW Staff . EST . 2022 at 05:34 PM . The best books of 2022 . 2023-02-03 . EW.com . en.
  29. News: Tyler . Leah . Best Southern books of 2022 reflect diversity of authors . English . The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . 2023-02-03 . 1539-7459.
  30. News: Q&A: Maud Newton on why we're obsessed with genealogy . May 23, 2014 . . 24 May 2015 . April 8, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160408183855/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20140523-qa-maud-newton-on-why-were-obsessed-with-genealogy.ece . dead .
  31. News: Investigating Our Ancestors . . May 19, 2014 . 24 May 2015.
  32. News: Maud Newton couldn't ignore her family's racist history. So she published it . en . NPR.org . 2022-07-23.
  33. Web site: Rondon . Steban . 2022-05-11 . Sins of the father: Miami's Maud Newton reckons with her family's history . 2022-07-23 . South Florida Media Network . en-US.
  34. Web site: Amazon Book Review . amazonbookreview.com . 27 May 2018.
  35. Web site: Off the Shelf: Maud Newton's life – a novel, not a memoir . Newton . Maud . November 22, 2009 . . 27 May 2018 . subscription.
  36. Web site: Goodbye, Brooklyn! Hi, Queens, hiiiiiiii. . maudnewton.com . Maud . Newton . April 16, 2016 . 27 May 2018.
  37. Web site: Varno . David . 2023-02-01 . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022 . 2023-02-03 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.

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