Rebecca Makkai is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels I Have Some Questions for You, The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, and the story collection Music for Wartime.
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Great Believers received an American Library Association Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors, and was named one of the 100 Best Books of the Twenty-First Century by The New York Times.
A Guggenheim fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of Bennington College and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago
Five Things I've Learned About
Live: Sunday, December 7, 5:00pm pacific / 8:00pm eastern
Join celebrated teacher and writer Rebecca Makkai in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to navigate the joys and demands that come with creating art while at the same time keeping the people you love both safe and happy.
Join celebrated teacher and writer Rebecca Makkai in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to navigate the joys and demands that come with creating art while at the same time keeping the people you love both safe and happy.
Five Things I've Learned About
View the archive of this two-hour class from celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the issue she’s found most connected to almost early every problem on the page – and why improving the ability to see through someone else’s eyes is essential to being a good writer and a decent human being.
View the archive of this two-hour class from celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the issue she’s found most connected to almost early every problem on the page – and why improving the ability to see through someone else’s eyes is essential to being a good writer and a decent human being.
© 2025 All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy
Register now. We share two tickets every day, and an email newsletter with news about our latest upcoming classes once a week.
By sharing your email, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.