Joanna Rackoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year (Knopf, 2014) and the novel A Fortunate Age (Scribner 2010), winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, the Elle Readers’ Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller. Rakoff’s books have been translated into twenty languages and nominated for major prizes in The Netherlands and France. She has written frequently for The New York Times, Vogue, Marie Claire, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. A graduate of Oberlin College, Rakoff holds an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in Cambridge, MA.