Emma Straub
Emma Straub (* in New York City ) is an American author. She writes short stories and essays for numerous magazines and journals. Straub published two collections of short stories in book form and in 2012 her first novel Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures , which received reviews in the New York Times , Washington Post , the radio show All Things Considered and numerous other media outlets.
Straub is the daughter of the author Peter Straub . She grew up in Manhattan . She went to high school in Brooklyn and college in Ohio . Like her father, she studied writing at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . There, the writer Lorrie Moore supervised her thesis. In addition to her work as an author, she works as a bookseller. She also runs a design office with her husband.
In 2011 her collection of short stories Other People We Married was published by the small independent publisher FiveChapter Books . After the success of this book, a new edition was published in 2012 by Riverhead Books , a sub-label for young authors with literary ambitions at Penguin Books . All other Straub publications appear there. The book presented a wide range of female main characters who move in very different situations. Critics particularly praised Straub's lively narrative tone and her flowing prose.
In 2012 she published her book Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures , which is set in Hollywood . Straub lives in Brooklyn. The book describes the career of the fictional Elsa Emerson from Wisconsin . She grew up in a theater family in the 1930s until she fled to Hollywood, crashed there in the 1940s and 1950s due to her second husband, studio boss Irving Green, who went by the stage name Laura Lamont, and finally as the host of a second-rate game show ends on TV. The story is based on the life of actress Jennifer Jones , the wife of studio boss David O. Selznick . Straub says that reading Jones' obituary gave her the inspiration to write the book.
In the New York Times Sunday Book Review , Caryn James described her collection of short stories for the recalcitrant characters and unexpected twists and turns in the plot. Laura Lamond's Life in Pictures, on the other hand, is very well written, but it appears serious, well-behaved and hard-working and is overwhelmed by the seriousness of its own claims without saying anything new. The book is very reminiscent of The Last Taikun by F. Scott Fitzgerald . Caroline Preston in the Washington Post described the book as shrewd . Preston particularly praises the outstanding way in which Straub succeeds in describing the atmosphere within the symbolic golden Hollywood cage in which Lamont temporarily lives. Entertainment Weekly praises the very personal characterization of the leading actress and puts it in its weekly “must” list of things and events.
Publications
- Fly-over state .
- Other People We Married (2011), FiveChapters Books.
- Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures (2012), Riverhead.
- The Vacationers , Riverhead (planned for 2014).
- Modern lovers . Michael Joseph, 2016
- epilogue
- on Pamela Moore : Cocktails , Roman. New edition 2015, Piper, Munich.
Remarks
- ↑ Samantha Hening: Emma Straub Becomes a Movie Star , New York Times Magazine September 27, 2012
- ↑ a b c Noah Charney: How I Write Family Edition: Emma Straub & Peter Straub , The Daily Beast August 29, 2012
- ↑ a b c Michelle Filgate: An Interview with Emma Straub , Bookslut February 2011
- ↑ Kirk S. Walsh: Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures , SFGate September 24, 2012
- ^ A b Caryn James: A Star Is Made , New York Times October 5, 2012
- ^ A b Caroline Preston: “Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures” by Emma Straub , The Washington Post September 24, 2012
- ↑ NPR Staff: The Life And Times Of Movie Star 'Laura Lamont' , All Things Considered, September 24, 2012
- ↑ Sara Vilkomerson: Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures , Entertainment Weekly, Issue # 1223 September 7, 2012
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Straub, Emma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |