Emily Barton
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Emily Barton (6. 1969) is an American author.
She was raised in New Jersey, and attended Harvard and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Her first novel, The Testament of Yves Gundron, was published in 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. That novel was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and earned Barton a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship and the Bard Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Brookland, was published in the spring of 2006, also by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation for 2006-07.
