Rachel Profiling

Hello, I'm Rachel.

Lady biographer. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.

Currently: I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.

If you want to say hi please do. Or find me in short form, here.

7:58 PM
12th February 2008

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Try to maintain some distance. Just scribbling away won’t get the job done, not for anybody. If at the height of his power Raymond Carver would go through over a dozen drafts of a story, why should someone just starting out think it’s any easier than that?

Legendary Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon.