Emma Forrest
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Forrest in 2009
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26 December 1976 London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Multiple citizenship: United Kingdom, United States |
| Period | 1993–present |
| Spouse | Ben Mendelsohn (m. 2012; separated 2016) |
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Emma Forrest (born 26 December 1976) is a British-American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. Born in London, she currently resides in Los Angeles.
Emma Forrest began her writing career at the age of fifteen when she wrote a story on Madonna for the London Evening Standard. A column in a national newspaper followed and so did the job title of full-time writer. Her "Generation X" column for the Sunday Times saw her leaving school to tour the world with various britpop/indie bands reporting on their "on the road" antics. The vanished Manic Street Preacher member Richey Edwards was the first person she ever interviewed. Emma has also worked for such publications as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, The Guardian, NME, Interview and Blackbook, where she has interviewed celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Brad Pitt. Most recently, she contributed an essay to the record Ceremonials by Florence and the Machine.
She has written three novels: Namedropper (1998), Thin Skin (2002), and Cherries in the Snow (2005).
In 2001 Forrest contributed to an anthology on the writer J.D. Salinger titled Love & Squalor, with an essay describing Salinger's influence on some current young writers. In 2007 she co-wrote and edited her first non-fiction book, Damage Control – Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies, which was an anthology of essays of the emotional pain women suffer for their own physical wellbeing. The book features contributions from many well-known women, including Helen Oyeyemi, Marian Keyes and Sarah Jones.
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