Rebecca Makkai

Official Panelist

2023 Participant · Fiction · Literary

Rebecca  Makkai
Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai's latest novel, I Have Some Questions For You, is a New York Times Best Seller. Her novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize; and it was one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2018. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime-four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

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Book Title(s)

  • I Have Some Questions For You: A Novel

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