Emily Fridlund

American novelist and academic who grew up in Edina, Minnesota. She studied at Principia College, took an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD at the University of Southern California, and has taught English at Cornell University. Her story collection Catapult (2017) won the Mary McCarthy Prize. Her debut novel, History of Wolves, grew out of a short story; set beside a remote lake in northern Minnesota, it follows a teenage girl drawn into a neighbouring family’s life. It won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of Emily Fridlund’s life

Works

• History of Wolves (2017)

Prizes

• History of Wolves — The Booker Prize 2017: Shortlist, Longlist