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Erica Wagner

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Erica Wagner
FRSL
Born1967 (age 56–57)
New York City, New York, United States
Alma materThe Brearley School
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
University of East Anglia
Occupation(s)Author, critic, editor, writer
Websiteericawagner.co.uk

Erica Wagner FRSL is an American author and critic, living in London, England. She is former literary editor of The Times.

Biography

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Erica Wagner was born in New York City in 1967.[1] She grew up on the Upper West Side and went to the Brearley School. As a child she had epilepsy.

She moved to Britain in the 1980s to continue her education, first at St Paul's Girls' School, then at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA), and finally at the University of East Anglia (MA), where she was taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia and is Goldsmiths Distinguished Writers' Centre Fellow, an appointment made in January 2022.

She is the author of several books, including a collection of short stories, Gravity, Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters, and the novel Seizure.[2] Her latest book is a biography of Washington Roebling, the engineer who constructed the Brooklyn Bridge.[3]

Wagner was literary editor of The Times between 1996 and June 2013.[4][5] She reviews for The New York Times and many other publications, including the New Statesman (for which she is a contributing writer), the Economist, the Observer, the Financial Times. Wagner was selected to be one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize in both 2002 and 2014.[6] She has judged many other literary prizes as well. She is Lead Editorial Innovator at Creatd, Inc.

Wagner was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.[7]

She lives in London with her husband, the writer Francis Gilbert, author of I'm a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here, Teacher on the Run and Yob Nation. They have a son, Theo.

Bibliography

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  • Gravity (Granta, 1997)[8]
  • Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters (Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton, 2000)[9]
  • Seizure (Faber & Faber, W. W. Norton, 2007)[10]
  • First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner (Unbound, 2016)
  • Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Bloomsbury, 2017)[11]
  • Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, forthcoming 2022/2033)

References

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  1. ^ "Ericawagner.co.uk". Ericawagner.co.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  2. ^ Review of Seizure in The Independent, 20 April 2007. [permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ Wagner, Erica (2017). Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge. London: Bloomsbury.
  4. ^ "Erica Wagner". The Times. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  5. ^ Cakir, Ziba. "The Times appoints Robbie Millen as literary editor – FeaturesExec Media Bulletin". Featuresexec.com. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  6. ^ Man Booker 2014 Judges. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  7. ^ Creamer, Ella (12 July 2023). "Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  8. ^ (Granta) ISBN 9781862071476, OCLC 60221000"Granta: Erica Wagner". Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ (Faber & Faber; W. W. Norton) ISBN 9780393323016, OCLC 994011451
  10. ^ (Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton) ISBN 9780393061482, OCLC 836381649
  11. ^ (Bloomsbury) ISBN 9781620400524, OCLC 1001841926


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