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Emma Cline

American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1989 · age 37

Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist from California. She published her first novel, The Girls, in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

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2024Guggenheim FellowshipAward2021O. Henry AwardAward2016Shirley Jackson Award for NovelAward1989Born

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Guggenheim Fellowship2024
O. Henry Award2021
Shirley Jackson Award for Novel2016

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Her story collection, Daddy, was published in 2020, and her second novel, The Guest, was published in 2023. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and The Paris Review. In 2017, Cline was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, and Forbes named her one of their "30 Under 30 in Media". She is a recipient of the Plimpton Prize and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Born 1989 · age 37

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