Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is, to me, one of the most trustworthy novelists working today. Born in 1968 in Eugene, Oregon, educated at Columbia, and a Guggenheim Fellow by 2013, she keeps choosing dangerous terrain: revolutionary motorcyclists, Cuba, the American prison system. While plenty of writers play it safe, I admire her nerve to plunge straight into uncomfortable reality. Her journalistic eye fused with novelistic freedom produces prose that makes me sit up straighter. I suspect her books will be read for a long time, and I count myself a committed reader of whatever she does next.

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Name (English)

Rachel Kushner

Name (Japanese)

レイチェル・クシュナー

Reading

れいちぇる・くしゅなー

Born

1968

Origin

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Occupation

writer / journalist / novelist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Monkey

High school

George Washington High School

University

Columbia University

Awards & achievements

• 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2018 Prix Médicis étranger

• Official sitehttps://rachelkushner.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Kushner
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7279300

Tags

• Oregon
• writer
• journalist
• novelist

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.