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Sloane Crosley
Crosley at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Crosley at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1978-08-03) August 3, 1978 (age 45)
New York, U.S.
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • essayist
  • novelist
Education
Nonfiction, fiction
Website
sloanecrosley.com

Sloane Crosley (born August 3, 1979) is an American writer living in New York City known for her humorous essays, including the collections I Was Told There'd Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There. She has also worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program. She graduated from Connecticut College in 2000.[1]

Career

optioned by HBO. Crosley's second collection of essays, the 2010 book How Did You Get This Number, also became a New York Times bestseller. Farrar, Straus and Giroux released her debut novel The Clasp in October 2015; it was optioned by Universal Pictures in 2016. Her third book of essays Look Alive Out There was also a Thurber Prize finalist. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Cult Classic by Crosley in 2022. In addition to her own books, Crosley edited The Best American Travel Writing in 2011.[3]

Crosley has published work in or edited for various magazines and newspapers. She was a weekly columnist for British newspaper

AFAR.[4] She co-wrote the song "It Only Gets Much Worse" with Nate Ruess.[5]

Her 2024 memoir Grief is for People was her first full length nonfiction book, and was published to positive review.[6] It focuses largely on the death of close friend Russell Perreault, the former executive director of publicity and social media for Penguin Random House’s Vintage Books imprint[7]

Crosley is co-chair of

The New York Public Library's Young Lions Committee and serves on the board of Housingworks
Bookstore.

In popular culture

In 2011 Crosley appeared on the TV series Gossip Girl as herself.[8] She appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on six occasions from 2010 to 2014.[8]

She was mentioned in

Jeopardy
.

Bibliography

Story and essay collections

  • ISBN 9781436207126
    .
  • How Did You Get This Number. New York: Riverhead Books. 2010.
    ISBN 978-1594487590
    .
  • Look Alive Out There. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018.
    ISBN 978-0374279844
    .

Memoirs

Novels

References

  1. ^ "Connecticut College Magazine Spring 2012".
  2. ^ "Best Sellers -- Paperback Nonfiction". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  3. ISBN 978-0547333366
    .
  4. ^ "Spin the Globe". 29 November 2011.
  5. ^ Spanos, Brittany (June 10, 2015). "Nate Ruess Details Every Track on 'Grand Romantic' Solo Debut". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  6. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  7. ^ "In Memoriam: Russell Perreault". penguinrandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  8. ^ a b "Sloane Crosley - IMDb". IMDb. Amazon. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  9. ^ "Review | Sloane Crosley lost her best friend. She'll make you miss him, too". Washington Post. 2024-02-23. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  10. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2024-03-18.
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