Peter Trachtenberg, 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

On December 4, Peter Trachtenberg received the 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for his book The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown and Company, 2008). This award was established in 1960 for significant contributions to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.

Trachtenberg's essays and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, TriQuarterly, Bomb, the Jewish Forward and Chicago, and have been broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. He received the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction and the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award for Fiction from the City College of New York. He has taught at Brown University, The New School, Johns Hopkins, NYU, the School of Visual Arts and City College of New York. In 2008-2009, he was an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife, Mary Gaitskill.

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