Rebecca Makkai
- January 10, 2024
- Writer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Rebecca Makkai |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Date Of Birth | Apr 20, 1978(1978-04-20) |
| Age | 46 |
| Birthplace | Skokie |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Illinois |
| Horoscope | Aries |
Rebecca Makkai Biography
| Name | Rebecca Makkai |
| Birthday | Apr 20 |
| Birth Year | 1978 |
| Place Of Birth | Skokie |
| Home Town | Illinois |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
| Parents | Valerie Becker Makkai |
Rebecca Makkai is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on April 20, 1978 in Skokie, Illinois, United States.
Her novel about the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Chicago, titled The Great Believers was published by Viking/Penguin Random House in June 2018. 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.
Rebecca Makkai Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Rebecca Makkai is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rebecca Makkai 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her first 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 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 and a 2014 NEA fellowship. Her fiction has also appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, and Shenandoah. Her nonfiction has appeared in Harpers and on 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. Her second novel, The Hundred-Year House, is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014, having received starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. It won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage. Her 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.”
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Is the great believers going to be a movie?
The adaptation is currently in its early stages. The film rights have been acquired but that’s about the extent of it.
What is the great believers book about?
Spanning three decades and two continents, The Great Believers is the story of a group of friends and their stirring emotional journey through the 1980s AIDS crisis in Chicago and its effects on the contemporary lives of survivors.
Where does rebecca Makkai teach?
Makkai is a faculty member in Northwestern’s School of Professional Studies. She teaches in the Prose and Poetry MFA program, as well as the Writing master’s program, where she works with talented writers of all stripes.
How does the great believers end?
The novel ends with scenes recounting Yale’s death in the hospital in 1992, while Fiona, elsewhere in the hospital, gives birth to Claire. Fiona in 2015 discovers that Julian Ames is still alive.
Where is the great believers set?
Published in June by Penguin Random House imprint Viking, The Great Believers is set in Chicago during the mid-1980s and in 2015 Paris. It uses the AIDS epidemic and a mother’s search for her estranged daughter to explore the effects of senseless loss and our efforts to overcome it.