Biography of Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel was born and raised in British Columbia on Denman Island. She is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 27 languages. A previous novel, The Singer's Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystère de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.


Study Guides on Works by Emily St. John Mandel

The Glass Hotel is the fifth novel penned by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel. One literary critic described the work as "a jigsaw puzzle that was missing its box"; the novel tells the story of two siblings whose lives are a mixture of...

Sea of Tranquility is a Sci-Fi novel by Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel. Published in 2022 by Knopf Publishing, the novel explores humanity's exploration and colonization of space for a period of three centuries. Beginning on earth in the...