Emma Brockes Bio | Wiki
Emma Brockes is a popular British author and a contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. She is also the author of She Left Me The Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me. Before, Emma worked briefly as a feature writer on The Scotsman.
Emma Brockes Age
Emma was born in 1975, in Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She is 48 years old.
Emma Brockes Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Emma stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.7 m).
Emma Brockes Mother
She was born in Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom, to her parents. Emma is the daughter of a middle-class couple in a small town in England. Emma’s mother, Paula, was born poor in South Africa, lost her mother to tuberculosis, helped care for her seven half-siblings, and emigrated alone at 28 to England, where she married and had Emma.
Emma Brockes Husband
Emma is not married. She is a single mom (via sperm donor) and her twins are healthy and happy in NYC.
Emma Brockes Education
She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, graduating in 1997 with a first. During her time at Oxford, Emma was editor of the student newspaper Cherwell and won the Philip Geddes Prize for journalism for her work.
Emma Brockes Guardian
She served briefly as a feature writer on The Scotsman, prior to joining The Guardian in 1997. Emma has been recognized by the British Press Awards three times, winning the “Young Journalist of the Year” award in 2001 and the “Feature Writer of the Year” award in 2002. Emma became nominated as “Interviewer of the Year” in 2006.
In 2005, an interview by Emma in The Guardian was described by its subject Noam Chomsky as a “scurrilous piece of journalism”. The Guardian afterward withdrew the article from the website, acknowledging “Ms. Emma’s misrepresentation of Prof Chomsky’s views on Srebrenica”, and offering “an unreserved apology to Prof Chomsky” for Brockes’s suggestion that Chomsky denied Srebrenica to be a massacre.
Emma is now a freelance writer, but continues to write profiles of major public figures for The Guardian, and contribute her own work to The New York Times and other publications.
Emma Brockes Books
– An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood (2018)
– What Would Barbra Do?: How Musicals Changed My Life (2008)
– She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me
– One life (Biografías y memorias) (Spanish Edition)
– What Would Barbra Do?: How Musicals Can Change Your Life
– She Left Me The Gun (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography)
Emma Brockes An Excellent Choice
On June 26, 2018, Emma published her book titled An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood. In this book, Emma deftly uses her own story to examine how and why an increasing number of women are using fertility treatments in order to become parents—and are doing it solo. Getting the attention of the reader every step of the way with mordant wit and remarkable candor, Emma shares the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her momentous and excellent choice.
Emma Brockes She Left Me The Gun
On June 24, 2014, Emma published her book titled She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me. This book is a tale of true transformation: the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her former life seemed simply to vanish, and of a daughter who transcends her mother’s fears and reclaims an abandoned past.
Emma Brockes Salary
She earns a satisfying amount from her work as an author and a contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. Emma’s average salary is $78,787 per year.
Emma Brockes Net Worth
Emma gets her wealth from her work as an author and a contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. Therefore, Emma has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Emma’s estimated net worth is $875,868.
Is Emma Brockes Married
Emma is not married. She is a single mom (via sperm donor) and her twins are healthy and happy in NYC.
How Old Is Emma Brockes
Emma is a 48-year-old who was born in 1975, in Camborne, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Who Is Emma Brockes
Emma is an author and a contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. She is also the author of She Left Me The Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me. Before, Emma worked briefly as a feature writer on The Scotsman.
Brockes Social Media Account
Twitter – @emmabrockes