Marina Keegan
Marina Evelyn Keegan (born October 25, 1989 in Boston , † May 26, 2012 in Cape Cod ) was an American writer and journalist.
Life
Keegan was born in Boston and raised in Wayland, Massachusetts . She attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols Private School in Cambridge , Massachusetts and went to Yale University in the fall of 2008 . Her major was English. She was the student president of Yale College. During her studies, she interned in the literary department of the New Yorker and wrote for the Yale Daily News . After graduating magna cum laude from Yale, she started working at The New Yorker . Five days after graduating from college, she died in a car accident.
A collection of nine short stories and eight essays was edited and posthumously published by Anne Fadiman in April 2014 and became a bestseller on the New York Times list . The German translation of the book was published in April 2015 under the title The opposite of loneliness .
publication
- The opposite of loneliness, essays and stories , New York, Scribner, 2014.
- The opposite of loneliness. Stories and essays . Translation of Brigitte Jakobeit. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-002276-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Marina Keegan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Marina Keegan in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Marina Keegan at perlentaucher.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keegan, Marina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keegan, Marina Evelyn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 2012 |
| Place of death | Cape Cod |