Erica Wagner

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Erica Wagner (born 1967 in New York City ) is an American literary critic.

Life

Erica Wagner grew up on the Upper West Side and attended the Brearley School . She moved to St Paul's Girls' School in the UK , got a BA from Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) and an MA from the University of East Anglia , where Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain were among her teachers.

Between 1996 and 2013 she was the culture editor of the Times . She regularly writes book reviews and essays for The New York Times , The New Statesman , Financial Times, and The Economist . In 2002 and 2014 she was a juror for the Man Booker Prize . She has also been named to the jury of the Orange Prize for Fiction , Whitbread First Novel Award , Forward Poetry Prize and the Paris Literary Prize awarded by Shakespeare and Company .

In 1997 Wagner published a collection of short stories, followed by a novel and a book on the 1998 volume of poetry, the Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes to Sylvia Plath .

Wagner is married to the author Francis Gilbert ( I'm a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here!, 2003), they live in London.

Fonts

  • Gravity. Granta, London 1997.
    • The astronomer. Stories. German by Helmut Splinter. Goldmann, Munich 2000.
  • Ariel's poison. Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters. Norton, New York 2001.
  • Seizure. Norton, New York 2007.
  • Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge . Bloomsbury, 2017 ISBN 9781620400524

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erica Wagner ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Man Booker Prize  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themanbookerprize.com
  2. ↑ Literature by and about Francis Gilbert in the WorldCat bibliographic database
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Erica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City