Emily Prager
Emily Prager is an American author and journalist.
[edit] Life and work
Prager grew up in Texas, Taiwan, and Greenwich Village, NY. She is a graduate of The Brearley School, Barnard College and has a Masters Degree in Education.[1] She starred in The Edge of Night on television in the 1960s, and was a contributing editor of The National Lampoon Magazine, a performer on The National Lampoon Radio Hour and worked and appeared in The High School yearbook Parody, and her work appeared in Titters, A book of Humor by Women. She was a writer for, and briefly a cast member of Saturday Night Live, a writer-performer in the cult film, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, and Robert Longo's Arena Brains.[2] Her works include a compendium of her humor writing In the Missionary Position, the acclaimed short story collection A Visit From the Footbinder and Other Stories, and the novels Eve's Tattoo, Clea and Zeus Divorce, and Roger Fishbite, and a memoir Wuhu Diary. She has been a columnist for the Village Voice,[3] the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, Penthouse, and The Guardian.[4] She is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and in the year 2000, she received the first online journalism award for commentary given by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She currently teaches at the Shanghai American School (Pudong Campus) in Shanghai, China. Dana Elcar was her stepfather. She has one adopted daughter, Cat Prager.
[edit] References
- ^ A Visit From the Footbinder Simon & Schuster, 1982, author biography
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695104/
- ^ author biography, Roger Fishbite, Vintage, 1999
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24438
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