Emily M. Danforth
{{Short description|American author (born 1980)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|01|17}}
| birth_place = Miles City, Montana, U.S.
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| alma_mater = University of Montana (MFA)
University of Nebraska–Lincoln (PhD)
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| genre = Young adult, LGBT
| subject = Coming-of-age, bildungsroman
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| notableworks = The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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| partner = Erica E. Edsell
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| website = {{URL|emdanforth.com}}
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Emily M. Danforth (born January 17, 1980) is an American writer.
Early life and education
Danforth was born and raised in Miles City, Montana.{{cite news|last=Danforth|first=Emily M.|title=Growing Up Gay in the 1990s: Has That Much Changed for Today's Gay Youth?|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emily-m-danforth/gay-youth_b_1308193.html|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=February 28, 2012}} She attended Hofstra University, where she came out.{{cite news|last=Minzesheimer|first=Bob|title=New voices: Emily Danforth's 'Cameron Post'|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2012-03-07/new-voices-emily-danforth-cameron-post/53407032/1|newspaper=USA Today|date=March 7, 2012}} She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Montana and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her wife.{{cite news|last=Sittenfeld|first=Curtis|title=The Best Novel About a "De-Gaying Camp" Ever Written|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/02/the_miseducation_of_cameron_post_by_emily_danforth_a_conversation_between_the_writer_and_novelist_curtis_sittenfeld_.single.html|newspaper=Slate|date=Feb 8, 2012|authorlink=Curtis Sittenfeld}}
Novels
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Her debut novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, was published in February 2012. This book became the basis for a 2018 film with the same name.
Her second novel, published in 2020, is Plain Bad Heroines. The book is set in a Rhode Island boarding school and the Los Angeles film industry.
References
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External links
- [https://www.emilymdanforth.com/bio Danforth's biography on her website]
- [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4916529.Emily_M_Danforth Author profile] on Goodreads
- {{Twitter}}
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American women novelists
Category:Hofstra University alumni
Category:American lesbian writers
Category:People from Miles City, Montana
Category:Rhode Island College faculty
Category:University of Montana alumni
Category:University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Category:American LGBTQ novelists
Category:LGBTQ people from Montana
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Novelists from Montana
Category:American women academics
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