Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau was born in 1976,^[1] the daughter of Princeton University professor Albert J. Raboteau. She grew up in New Jersey.^[2][3]

She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and an MFA from New York University.^[4][5] She teaches at City College of New York.^[6]

Raboteau's writing has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times,^[7] New York Review of Books,^[8] Oxford American, The Believer, Guernica, The Best American Short Stories,^[9] The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, and The Best African American Essays.^{[citation needed]}

Her first novel The Professor's Daughter was published in 2005.^[10] Her second book, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, a work of creative nonfiction, was published in 2013 and won a 2014 American Book Award.^[11]

She is^[when?] professor of creative writing at the City College of New York.^{[citation needed]}

Raboteau has received the Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.^[9][12]

Raboteau married novelist Victor LaValle.^[13] They have two children.^[14]

• "The Professor's Daughter". Macmillan Publishers. July 20, 2021.
• Searching for Zion,
• "Lessons for Survival". Macmillan Publishers. July 20, 2021..^[15][16]