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Rebecca Makkai was born on 20 April, 1978 in Skokie, IL, is an American novelist and short-story writer. Discover Rebecca Makkai's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?
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45 years old |
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Aries |
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20 April, 1978 |
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20 April |
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Skokie, IL |
| Nationality |
United States
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Rebecca Makkai Height, Weight & Measurements
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Rebecca Makkai Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Rebecca Makkai worth at the age of 45 years old? Rebecca Makkai’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from United States. We have estimated Rebecca Makkai's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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She is the daughter of linguistics professors Valerie Becker Makkai and Ádám Makkai, a refugee to the US following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Her paternal grandmother, Rózsa Ignácz, was a well-known actress and novelist in Hungary.
Makkai graduated from Lake Forest Academy and attended Washington and Lee University where she graduated with a B.A. in English.
She later earned a master's degree from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English.
Makkai has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada University and Northwestern University.
She is the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago.
Makkai has also taught at Lake Forest College and held the Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College in Wisconsin.
She has two children and lives in Lake Forest, Illinois.
She met her husband, Jon Freeman, at Bread Loaf.
Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer.
Makkai grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois.
Makkai's third novel, titled The Great Believers, is set during the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Chicago and was published by Viking/Penguin Random House in June 2018.
Her short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and as well as in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize, a 2014 NEA fellowship, and a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Makkai's fiction has also appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, and Shenandoah.
Her nonfiction has appeared in Harpers, Salon.com, and The New Yorker website.
Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's Selected Shorts and This American Life.
Makkai's debut novel, The Borrower, was released in June 2011.
It was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011.
It was translated into seven languages.
Her second novel, The Hundred-Year House, is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014.
It received starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.
The book won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage.
Makkai's debut short story collection, Music for Wartime, was published by Viking in June 2015.
A starred and featured review in Publishers Weekly said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story "Exposition", within "the borders of the human heart"—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well."
The Kansas City Star wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai."
The Great Believers won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction.
It was also a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and won the LA Times Book Prize, the ALA Stonewall Award, and the Chicago Review of Books Award.
