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Emily Gould
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| Born | October 13, 1981 Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
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| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction |
Emily Gould, born on October 13, 1981, is an American writer. She writes novels and short stories. She also used to be an editor and blogger for a website called Gawker. Emily Gould also co-owns an online bookstore called Emily Books with another writer, Ruth Curry.
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Emily Gould's Education
Emily Gould went to Kenyon College and later graduated from Eugene Lang College.
Emily Gould's Career as a Writer
Emily Gould started her writing journey as a blogger. She first wrote for The Universal Review. Later, she started her own blog called Emily Magazine. She also wrote for Gawker as a freelance writer. Before joining Gawker full-time, Emily was an editor at Hyperion, a part of Disney.
Her work for Gawker became very popular. It even caught the attention of big newspapers like The New York Times. She left Gawker in November 2007.
Books Written by Emily Gould
Emily Gould has written several books. She co-wrote a young adult novel called Hex Education with Zareen Jaffery. This book was released in May 2007.
She also wrote a collection of essays titled And the Heart Says Whatever. This book was published in May 2010. Her novel Friendship came out in 2014.
Emily Books: An Online Bookstore
Emily Gould and her friend, writer Ruth Curry, own an online bookstore called Emily Books. This bookstore also has a publishing company that works with Coffee House Press.
Emily Gould's Personal Life
Emily Gould comes from a Jewish family. She married novelist Keith Gessen in October 2014. They live in Brooklyn, New York.
In 2022, Emily Gould was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She also has celiac disease, which is a condition where she cannot eat gluten.
Works
- Hex Education. Illustrator Zareen Jaffery, Razorbill, 2007, ISBN: 9781595141187
- Perfect Tunes (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
