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'''Rachel Kushner''' (born 1968) is an [[United States|American]] writer, known for her novels ''[[Telex from Cuba]]'' (2008), ''[[The Flamethrowers]]'' (2013), and ''[[The Mars Room]]'' (2018).
==Early life==
Kushner was born in [[Eugene, Oregon]], the daughter of two Communist scientists, one Jewish and one Unitarian,
When she was 16, she began her bachelor's degree in political economy at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] with an emphasis on [[Foreign policy of the United States|United States foreign policy]] in Latin America.<ref name="Kushner Interview" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Rachel Kushner|url=http://www.ndbooks.com/author/rachel-kushner |website=ndbooks.com|access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref> Kushner lived as an [[Student exchange program|exchange student]] in Italy when she was 18; upon completing her Bachelor of Arts, she lived in San Francisco, working at nightclubs.<ref name="Kushner Interview" /> At 26, she enrolled in the fiction program at [[Columbia University]] and earned a [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] in creative writing in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kushner, Rachel|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2004014752 |website=id.loc.gov|access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref> One of her influences is the American novelist [[Don DeLillo]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Ulin|first=David L.|title=Rachel Kushner lights a fire in 'The Flamethrowers'|url=http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-rachel-kushner-20130414,0,5799361.story|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref>
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Kushner's first novel, ''Telex from Cuba'', was published by [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]] in July 2008. She got the idea for her novel after completing her MFA in 2000, and she made three long trips to Cuba over the six years it took her to write the book.<ref name="Kushner Interview" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Timberg|first1=Scott|title=Breathing literary life into '50s Cuba | url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/05/entertainment/et-kushner5 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref> ''Telex from Cuba'' was the cover review of the July 6, 2008 issue of ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'', where it was described as a "multi-layered and absorbing" novel whose "sharp observations about human nature and colonialist bias provide a deep understanding of the revolution's causes." ''Telex from Cuba'' was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.<ref name="NatBookAward">[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2008#.Uj6JsLzXLV8 "National Book Awards - 2008"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved September 22, 2013.</ref><ref>Cokal, Susan (July 6, 2008). [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Cokal-t.html "Livin' La Vida Local"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> Kushner's editor is Nan Graham.<ref>{{cite web|title=Board of Directors|url=http://www.centerforfiction.org/about/board-of-directors/ |website=centerforfiction.org|access-date= 26 July 2016}}</ref>
Kushner's second novel, ''[[The Flamethrowers]]'', was published by [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]] in April 2013. ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' hailed it for its "blazing prose," which "ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground."{{Citation needed|reason=Searched Vanity Fair site, can't find this. It may have been published in print but not online.|date=November 2016}} In ''[[The New Yorker]]'', critic [[James Wood (critic)|James Wood]] praised the book as "scintillatingly alive. It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures: Kushner is never not telling a story... It succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/08/youth-in-revolt|title=Youth in Revolt
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