Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels I Have Some Questions for YouThe Great BelieversThe 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

Celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai shares 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...

Five Things I've Learned About

Celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai shares 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...

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