Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes
Born	1975 United Kingdom

Emma Brockes (born 1975) is a British author and journalist for The Guardian newspaper. She lives in New York.

Brockes graduated in 1997 with a first from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University where she was editor of the student newspaper Cherwell and won the Philip Geddes prize for journalism. She worked briefly as feature writer on The Scotsman, before joining The Guardian in 1997. She has been recognised by the British Press Awards three times, taking the 'Young Journalist of the Year' award in 2001 and the 'Feature Writer of the Year' award in 2002, for which she was also nominated in 2006.

In 2005, a profile by Brockes of Noam Chomsky published in The Guardian sparked controversy over its depiction of Chomsky's views on Bosnian war crimes when Chomsky described it as "an exercise in defamation that is a model of the genre". The Guardian later withdrew the article from the website, acknowledging "Ms Brockes's misrepresentation of Prof Chomsky's views on Srebrenica" , and offering "an unreserved apology to Prof Chomsky" for Brockes's suggestion that Chomsky denied Srebrenica to be a massacre.

Her first book What Would Barbra Do? was published in 2007. It is a light-hearted musical memoir centered on the love of musicals she inherited from her mother, to which the New York Times Book Review responded "Spirited, articulate and utterly devourable ... If I could offer [Brockes] any advice, it would be ... to write as many books on as many subjects as she can, as fast as is reasonably possible.". She continues to write profiles of major public figures for The Guardian, as well as contributing her own work to The New York Times and other publications as listed on her web site (see the links under 'External Links', below).

External links

• Brockes' profile at The Guardian
• Emma Brockes' Web site
• Emma Brockes on twitter