Emily Rapp
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| Born | Emily Susan Rapp July 12, 1974 Grand Island, Nebraska |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
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Harvard University, University of Texas-Austin, Trinity College-Dublin, St. Olaf College
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| Genre | Memoir |
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Harvard University, University of Texas-Austin, Trinity College-Dublin, St. Olaf College
Emily Rapp Black (born July 12, 1974) is an American memoirist. When she was six years old, she was chosen as the poster child for the March of Dimes, due to a congenital birth defect that resulted in the amputation of her leg. As of 2013[update], she has written two memoirs, one that presents her life as an amputee and the other that tells the story of the birth of her child Ronan Christopher Louis and his diagnosis of Tay-Sachs disease. She is a former Fulbright scholar and recipient of the James A. Michener Fellowship. As of 2013[update], she is a professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Emily Susan Rapp was born on July 12, 1974, in Grand Island, Nebraska. Rapp was raised in Laramie, Wyoming; Kearney, Nebraska; and Denver, Colorado; by her father, a Lutheran pastor, and her mother, a school nurse. She lives in New Mexico with her husband, writer and editor Kent Black and their family.
In 1996, Rapp received a Fulbright Fellowship to Seoul, South Korea. She was educated at Harvard University, where she received a Masters in Theological Studies; Saint Olaf College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Women's Studies; Trinity College, Dublin; and the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow and received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing.
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