Joanna Rakoff
Nonfiction
Cambridge, MA
Joanna Rakoff is the author of the memoir My Salinger Year, an international bestseller and finalist for the Elle Gran Prix de Lectrices, and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction. She has written for The New York Times, Vogue, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Porter, and many other publications. A graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University, she has taught at Columbia and Brooklyn College. While at Ragdale, she will be completing final edits on her new memoir, The Fifth Passenger.