Myla Goldberg
Myla Goldberg | |
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Born | November 19, 1971 |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Eleanor Roosevelt High School Oberlin College |
Spouse | Jason Little |
Children | 2 |
Myla Goldberg (born November 19, 1971) is an American novelist and musician.
Biography
Goldberg was born into a
Goldberg is an accomplished amateur musician. She plays the
Career
While in Prague, Goldberg completed her first novel, Kirkus, a story of an Eastern European circus troupe engulfed by the onset of World War II. She gave it to an agent who shopped it for 18 months, but it was not published by the time she had begun working on Bee Season, so it was shelved.
After returning to Brooklyn Goldberg took several jobs, including working on a production of a Stephen King horror movie. She was let go from that job, which brought an unforeseen benefit - the six months of unemployment benefits checks gave her sufficient time to finish Bee Season ("It was a grant, as far as I was concerned", she told an Oberlin student interviewer in 2005).[2]
Goldberg's first published novel was Bee Season (2000), portraying the breakdown of a family and the spiritual explorations of its two children amid a series of spelling bees. It was a popular and critical success, and was adapted into a film in 2005. She has also published short stories in Virgin Fiction, Eclectic Literary Forum, New American Writing, McSweeney's and Harpers Magazine. She reviews books for The New York Times and Bookforum.[5]
In 2005 Goldberg published a second novel,
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References
- ^ "Put Paper to Pen and Spell out Eliza. A Very Happy Birthday to Myla Goldberg!". Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. November 19, 2011.
- ^ a b "Interview: Myla Goldberg". Militant Geek (3). Fall 2000.
- ^ "Myla Goldberg". Flux Factory. January 16, 2007.
- ^ "The Official One Ring Zero Thanks Page". One Ring Zero. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ "Myla Goldberg Biography". BookBrowse. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ Long, Karen R. (March 4, 2009). "Jonathan Lethem, Myla Goldberg and Colson Whitehead speak of cartoons, criticism and their upcoming work". The Plain Dealer.
External links
- Myla Goldberg at Random House.
- Myla Goldberg at IMDb