Erica Wagner
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Erica Wagner FRSL is an American author and critic, living in London, England. She is former literary editor of The Times.
Biography
Erica Wagner was born in New York City, United States, in 1967.[1] She grew up on the Upper West Side and went to the Brearley School.
She moved to Britain in the 1980s to continue her education, first at St Paul's Girls' School, then at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA), and finally at the University of East Anglia (MA), where she was taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia and is Goldsmiths Distinguished Writers' Centre Fellow, an appointment made in January 2022. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[2]
Her latest book is Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story. Her other books include a collection of short stories, Gravity, Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters, and the novel Seizure.[3] She is the author of a biography of Washington Roebling, the engineer who constructed the Brooklyn Bridge.[4]
Wagner was literary editor of The Times between 1996 and June 2013.[5][6] She reviews for The New York Times and many other publications, including the New Statesman (for which she is a contributing writer), The Economist, The Observer, and the Financial Times. Wagner was selected to be one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize in both 2002 and 2014.[7] She has judged many other literary prizes as well. She is Editor-at-Large for Boundless, a magazine launched by Unbound.
She lives in London.
Bibliography
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- Gravity (Granta, 1997)[8]
- Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters (Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton, 2000)[9]
- Seizure (Faber & Faber, W. W. Norton, 2007)[10]
- First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner (Unbound, 2016)
- Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Bloomsbury, 2017)[11]
- Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ericawagner.co.uk". Ericawagner.co.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Wagner, Erica - Royal Society of Literature". 14 July 2023.
- ^ Review of Seizure in The Independent, 20 April 2007. [permanent dead link]
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wagner, Erica (2017). Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge. London: Bloomsbury.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Erica Wagner". The Times. Archived from the original on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cakir, Ziba. "The Times appoints Robbie Millen as literary editor – FeaturesExec Media Bulletin". Featuresexec.com. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ Man Booker 2014 Judges. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wagner, Erica. "Gravity : stories:". Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2007.
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- ^ Seizure (Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton) Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link
- ^ Chief engineer : Washington Roebling, the man who built the brooklyn bridge (Bloomsbury) Template:ISBN, Template:Catalog lookup link
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