![]() ![]() It’s seeing your work from another’s perspective. What goes down in her class is the transformative - and often painful - process that doesn't happen when you write alone in a room. “We have people of all ages and backgrounds together in one classroom, which benefits everyone.” ![]() “I love our mix of students, both in their writing and life experience,” she says. She teaches in the Prose and Poetry MFA program, as well as the Writing master’s program, where she works with talented writers of all stripes. Makkai is a faculty member in Northwestern’s School of Professional Studies. It also won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Stonewall Book Award, the Chicago Review of Books Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. It has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, and The New York Times rated it one of the 10 best books of 2018. It was named a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction. The book follows parallel narratives: a mother’s search for her estranged daughter in Paris and a group of friends in Chicago during the AIDS crisis. Thanks to her latest novel, “ The Great Believers,” it appears she’ll have much more time to write. You get to keep doing this,” says author Rebecca Makkai. “Ultimately, the prize for a successful book is simply that you buy yourself more time to write. ![]()
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