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Maud Newton
BornMay 21, 1971 (1971-05-21) (age 53)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Florida
Occupation(s)Writer and critic
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Rebecca "Maud" Newton is a writer, critic, and former lawyer born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She was raised in Miami, Florida.

Writing

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Newton first came to attention as the founder of an early litblog.[1][2]

Her essays, critiques and short stories have appeared in a number of publications,[3] including The New York Times Magazine,[4] Esquire,[5] The Wall Street Journal,[6] Time,[7] Harper's Magazine,[8] The New York Times Book Review,[9] Harper's Bazaar,[10] Catapult,[11] Bookforum,[12] Narrative Magazine,[13] The Awl,[14] Tin House,[15] and Humanities.[16][17]

Her first book, the non-fiction Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, was published by Random House in 2022.[18][19][20] The book was named one of the best of 2022 by The New Yorker,[21] NPR,[22] The Washington Post,[23] The Boston Globe,[24] Time,[25] Esquire,[26] Garden & Gun,[27] Entertainment Weekly,[28] and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[29]

Personal life

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Newton was born in Dallas and raised in a fundamentalist household in Miami by an evangelical mother and racist father.[4][30][31][11][32][33]

She attended college and law school at the University of Florida.[34][35] She lives in New York City.[36][33]

Awards and honors

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In 2004, she received the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Award from the City College of New York and in June 2008, she won second prize in the Narrative Magazine Love Story Contest.[16] She was awarded the 2009 Narrative Prize Fiction, for her short story "When the Flock Changed."[13]

Her book Ancestor Trouble was a finalist for the 2023 John Leonard Prize, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book in any genre.[37]

References

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  1. ^ Orr, David (October 3, 2004). "Where to Find Digital Lit". The New York Times. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  2. ^ Dumenco, Simon (October 30, 2003). "Blog Blog Blog". New York. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  3. ^ "Site Read: We chat with the founders of three of our favorite websites". Entertainment Weekly. June 15, 2006. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2008.
  4. ^ a b Newton, Maud (March 22, 2013). "Oy Vey, Christian Soldiers". The New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  5. ^ "My Father, My Tormentor". Esquire. March 22, 2022. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  6. ^ Newton, Maud (April 6, 2022). "Learning About Ourselves From Genealogy". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  7. ^ "Digging Into My Family's Racist History Turned Up Truths America Is Still Wrestling With". Time. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  8. ^ Newton, Maud (June 1, 2014). "America's Ancestry Craze". Harper's Magazine. Vol. June 2014. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  9. ^ Newton, Maud (June 18, 2018). "Curious About Your Ancestry? Submit a DNA Swab, and a Big Grain of Salt". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  10. ^ Newton, Maud. "Maud Newton". Harper's BAZAAR. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  11. ^ a b Newton, Maud (September 7, 2017). "Catapult | TinyLetter of the Month: Maud Newton, "Notes from the Child of a White Supremacist"". Catapult. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  12. ^ Newton, Maud. "South of Sane | T. D. Allman's Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State" (review). Bookforum. No. Feb/Mar 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  13. ^ a b "Narrative Prize Winners". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  14. ^ Newton, Maud (December 26, 2016). "Fundamentalist Horror Film". The Awl. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  15. ^ Newton, Maud (January 14, 2013). "Some Company for Slow Writers". Tin House Magazine. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  16. ^ a b Newton, Maud (February 11, 2014). "Maud Newton Writing". maudnewton.com. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  17. ^ "Love Is a Four-Letter Word".[dead link‍]
  18. ^ Berry, Lorraine (March 24, 2022). "Our tangled family trees in Maud Newton's 'Ancestor Trouble'". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  19. ^ Arsenault, Kerri (March 29, 2022). "From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  20. ^ Copeland, Libby. "Review | When a family tree is rooted in racism". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  21. ^ "The Best Books of 2022". The New Yorker. October 26, 2022. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  22. ^ "Books We Love". NPR. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  23. ^ Post, Washington (November 20, 2022). "50 notable works of nonfiction: The year's best memoirs, biographies, history and more". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  24. ^ Globe Staff, Boston. "The best books of 2022 - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  25. ^ "The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022". Time. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  26. ^ Westenfeld, Adrienne (December 12, 2022). "The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022". Esquire. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  27. ^ Gomez-Misserian, Gabriela (December 8, 2022). "The Best Southern Books of 2022". Garden & Gun. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  28. ^ December 07, EW Staff; EST, 2022 at 05:34 PM. "The best books of 2022". EW.com. Retrieved February 3, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  29. ^ Tyler, Leah. "Best Southern books of 2022 reflect diversity of authors". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN 1539-7459. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  30. ^ "Q&A: Maud Newton on why we're obsessed with genealogy". The Dallas Morning News. May 23, 2014. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  31. ^ "Investigating Our Ancestors". KERA (FM). May 19, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  32. ^ "Maud Newton couldn't ignore her family's racist history. So she published it". NPR.org. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  33. ^ a b Rondon, Steban (May 11, 2022). "Sins of the father: Miami's Maud Newton reckons with her family's history". South Florida Media Network. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  34. ^ "Amazon Book Review". amazonbookreview.com. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  35. ^ Newton, Maud (November 22, 2009). "Off the Shelf: Maud Newton's life – a novel, not a memoir". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  36. ^ Newton, Maud (April 16, 2016). "Goodbye, Brooklyn! Hi, Queens, hiiiiiiii". maudnewton.com. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  37. ^ Varno, David (February 1, 2023). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
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