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Emma Cline Biography & Facts
Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist from California. She published her first novel, The Girls, in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her second novel, The Guest, was published in 2023. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and The Paris Review. In 2017, Cline was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, and Forbes named her one of their "30 Under 30 in Media". She is a recipient of the Plimpton Prize. Life and career Personal life Cline, born in 1989, was raised in Sonoma County, California. She was the second of seven children in her family. As a teenager, Cline had acting roles in When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) and the short film, Flashcards (2003). After graduating from Sonoma Academy, at age 16, Cline attended Middlebury College, where she studied art. During her first year there, she won a writing award for her short story, "What is Lost". After graduating, Cline attended Columbia University, where she received her MFA in 2013. While at Columbia, she wrote "Marion,” a short piece of fiction, which was published by The Paris Review, in their 2013 summer issue. A year later, The Paris Review selected Cline to receive their annual Plimpton Prize for this same work. Since then, her writing has been published in multiple journals. The Girls Cline's first novel, The Girls, was published in 2016 by Random House Publishing. She was offered a $2 million advance by Random House, who outbid 11 other publishers for the novel. American film producer Scott Rudin bought the film rights to the book, shortly before it was acquired by Random House. The novel is based, in part, on the Charles Manson cult and murders of the late 1960s. The story is told from the view point of Evie Boyd, a fourteen-year-old girl, whose childhood is changed when she is introduced to a cult. As an adult, Evie reflects on her actions, as a child, bringing up questions of what it means to grow up as a girl and how injustice, in the world, can lead to terrible violence. While Cline is celebrated for her descriptive abilities and attention to gender structures, critics have also said that the cult setting seemed unnecessary to the novel and left the ending feeling unfulfilled. Still, the book was well received by the general public, and The Girls spent three months on The New York Times Best Seller list. It won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. The movie production for the novel is in the development stages. Daddy Cline's short story collection, Daddy, was published in 2020 by Random House Publishing. The New York Times called Cline "an astonishingly gifted stylist." The Guest In May 2023, an exclusive excerpt from Cline's second novel The Guest appeared in Vogue. The book was published by Random House on May 16, 2023. The New York Times wrote that the novel "could be read as an entertaining series of misguided shenanigans interrupting the upper class’s summer vacation, but under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force". She has said that part of it was inspired by John Cheever's short story "The Swimmer." Other endeavors Cline is the co-founder, along with Peter Mendelsund, of Picture Books, an imprint of Gagosian Gallery. In February 2017, Cline's former boyfriend Chaz Reetz-Laiolo made plagiarism accusations against Cline that were ultimately dismissed by a judge. Reetz-Laiolo said Cline installed a spyware program on his computer in order to read his personal work and emails without his consent. He demanded reparations and threatened to put forth a public court filing that included sexually explicit images and text messages of Emma Cline. Cline put forth a countersuit, arguing that the spyware was for her own protection because Reetz-Laiolo had been physically and emotionally abusive, and that the similarities between Reetz-Laito's work and The Girls was minimal. Random House issued a statement in support of Cline. In June 2018, the copyright claim was dismissed with prejudice by Judge William Orrick, who said, "Both stories are ‘coming of age’ tales of sorts. But they vary significantly in detail, breadth and texture" and called the behavior of Reetz-Laiolo's lawyers "remarkably offensive." Awards 2014 Plimpton Prize 2016 Shirley Jackson Award 2017 Best Young American Novelists, Granta 2021 O. Henry Award O. Henry Award, Bibliography Books The Girls. Random House. 2016. ISBN 978-0-8129-9860-3. Daddy: Stories. Random House. 2020. ISBN 978-0-8129-9864-1. The Guest. Random House. 2023. ISBN 978-0-8129-9862-7. Short fiction "Perseids". Tin House. Vol. 7, no. 4. Summer 2006. "Marion". The Paris Review. No. 205. Summer 2013. "Arcadia". Granta. July 13, 2016. "Northeast Regional". The New Yorker. April 3, 2017. "Los Angeles". Granta. April 25, 2017. "What Can You Do with a General". The New Yorker. January 28, 2019. "Son of Friedman". The New Yorker. June 24, 2019. "The Nanny". The Paris Review. No. 231. Winter 2019. "White Noise". The New Yorker. June 1, 2020. "The Iceman". The New Yorker. August 16, 2021. "Certain European Movies". The New Yorker. August 25, 2022. Essays "See Me". The Paris Review. March 17, 2014. "The Corrupted American Innocence of Archie Comics". The New Yorker. July 7, 2016. "Fleeing the Fires in Sonoma County". The New Yorker. October 13, 2017. "The Drive Home". The New York Times. November 14, 2017. "Haunted House". The New Yorker. July 5, 2021. "The Erl-King". Granta. No. 161. November 17, 2022. Anthology The Best American Short Stories 2020 The Best American Short Stories 2018 The Best American Short Stories 2017 The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review References. Discover the Emma Cline popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Emma Cline books.
Best Seller Emma Cline Books of 2024
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Heatstroke
Hazel Barkworth'A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets' NELL FRIZZELL In the middle of a stifling suburban heatwave, fifteenyearold Lily doesn't come ho...
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Please Join Us
Catherine McKenzieNamed one of 2022’s best and mostanticipated thrillers by Goodreads, CrimeReads, Motherly, Westport Magazine, and more!A “propulsive thriller about secret organizations, hidden age...
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Vivienne
Emmalea RussoDid Vivienne Volker kill Wilma Lang? This question has dogged Vivienne ever since Wilma jumped from a window to her death shortly after Volker stole her lover, the visionary a...
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The Ash Family
Molly DektarWhen a young woman leaves her family to join a secret offthegrid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this “stunning d...
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Girl in Snow
Danya Kukafka“A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller…and an incredibly accomplished debut” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Wate...
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The Great Transition
Nick Fuller GooginsThis richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the cl...
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You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here
Frances Macken'This atmospheric debut looks like a rural Irish comingofage novel, but it’s cleverer, darker, more unreliable.' Daily MailAN IRISH INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAN IRISH INDEPE...
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The Guest
Emma ClineNATIONAL BESTSELLER A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestsel...
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Bad Day Breaking
John GalliganWild Wild Country and Longmire meet in the latest in the “gritty, brash, and totally gripping” (The Real Book Spy) Bad Axe County series, as Sheriff Heidi Kick struggles to prevent...
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Cults
Max CutlerMystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the...
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
G. K. ChestertonThe third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's...
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The Glass Forest
Cynthia SwansonThe lives of three very different women intersect in shocking ways in this “outstanding psychological thriller” (Library Journal, starred review), by the New York Times bestselling...
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Daddy
Emma ClineFrom the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.“Daddy’s ...
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The Promise
Barbara PowersA Holocaust survivor's own story, told specially for young readers.This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother caught in a world turned upside down by ...
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Die Sekte - Dein Albtraum nimmt kein Ende
Mariette LindsteinDu weißt erst, dass du in den Fängen einer Sekte steckst, wenn du sie nicht verlassen kannst!15 Jahre sind vergangen, seit Sofia Bauman der Sekte für immer den Rücken kehrte. Sie h...
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The Follower
Nicholas BowlingTwin Peaks meets Welcome to Night Vale in this surreal, supernatural thriller by a Costashortlisted author"Gripping, compelling and otherworldly"DAVID QUANTICK When her twin b...
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Die Sekte - Dein Feind ist dir ganz nah
Mariette LindsteinEin neuer Kult erhebt sich, und nur einer kann ihn aufhalten ... Die Fortsetzung der Nr.1Bestsellerreihe aus Schweden!Franz Oswald hat einst eine mächtige Sekte angeführt – und ha...
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Sugar Run
Mesha Maren“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” Lauren Groff, author of Florida In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen ...
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Nana
Émile Zola & George HoldenBorn to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as ...
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Spiritual Verses
The Jalaluddin Rumi & Alan WilliamsBegun in 1262 AD, Masnaviye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest singleauthored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian...
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Summary of The Girls
InstareadSummary of The Girls by Emma Cline | Includes Analysis Preview: The Girls by Emma Cline is a novel loosely based on the events leading up to the Manson Family ...
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I Love You, But ...
Colm LiddyCouples.Couples at war.Couples apparently at peace with war simmering beneath the surface.Desire frustrated.Desire, satisfied but in surprising ways.Revenge at its most creative....
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Die Sekte - Deine Angst ist erst der Anfang
Mariette LindsteinSie glaubt, sie ist in Sicherheit. Doch die Sekte lässt niemanden gehen.Sofia Bauman, einst Anhängerin von »ViaTerra«, glaubt sich endlich in Sicherheit. Dank ihr sitzt der teuflis...
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Your Life Is Mine
Nathan RipleyInstant national bestseller Nathan Ripley follows up the success of Find You in the Dark with another suspenseful pageturnerthis time about a woman whose notorious father died when...
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What July Knew
Emily Koch'July is such a brilliant creation smart, inquisitive and determined' T.M. LOGAN author of The HolidayOne death. Eighteen facts. What's the truth?How do you solve the mystery of y...
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Another Kind of Eden
James Lee BurkeNew York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the ...
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The Dark Side of the Sky
Francesco DimitriA pageturning literary fantasy filled with terror and wonder, set in a sunbaked Southern Italy, for fans of The Girls by Emma Cline, The Magus by John Fowles and The Great Believer...
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Astrid Sees All
Natalie StandifordThis “vivid portrait of a seedy, edgy, artsy, and seething New York City that will never exist again” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author)the glittering, decadent...
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Foot Work
Tansy E. Hoskins'Fascinating and eyeopening' OWEN JONESDO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM?DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM?In 2019, 66.6 million pairs of shoes were manufac...
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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
Felicity McLean“ONE PART MYSTERY, ONE MILLION PARTS AMAZING.” Cosmopolitan A Recommended Summer Read from Entertainment Weekly Bustle Nylon Cosmopolitan"How do you escape your childhood, emoti...
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The Celestial Wife
Leslie HowardA young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by ...
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Animal
Lisa TaddeoFrom Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an “intoxicating” (Entertainment Weekly), “fearless” (Los Angeles Times), and ...
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Ponti
Sharlene TeoAn awardwinning novel about the value of friendships in presentday Singaporea “stirring debut…relatable yet unsettling [that] smartly captures earnest teenage myopathy through a tu...
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Die Sekte - Deine Welt steht in Flammen
Mariette LindsteinDie Sekte wurde besiegt, doch ihr Feuer brennt heißer denn je ... Die Fortsetzung der Bestsellerreihe aus Schweden!Das Herrenhaus auf der Nebelinsel Dimö steht leer. Zwei Jahre sin...
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Die Sekte - Es gibt kein Entkommen
Mariette LindsteinEine junge Frau in den Fängen einer gefährlichen Sekte – »Nervenzerreißende Spannung ist garantiert.« AftonbladetAuf einer nebeligen, sturmgepeitschten Insel vor der Westküste Schw...
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The Safekeep
Yael van der WoudenAn exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961a powerful explorati...
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The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo
Catherine JohnsonShortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2016, this is a very curious tale indeed . . . Out of the blue arrives an exotic young woman from a foreign land. Fearless and strong, 'Princess' ...