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Emma Cline
Emma Cline is an American author and writer
Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. The Girls was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and was the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.
Cline’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and an O’Henry Award, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.
Switzy was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.
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