Erica Wagner lives in London but grew up in New York, where her
parents’ job was answering all the fan mail sent to Jim Henson's Muppets.
She moved to England in 1986 to take her undergraduate degree at
Cambridge. Her books include: Gravity: Stories (Granta,
1997); Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of
Birthday Letters (Faber & Faber, 2000; W. W. Norton, 2000); Seizure:
A Novel (Faber & Faber, 2007; W. W. Norton, 2007); and Chief
Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Bloomsbury,
2017), which was an Economist Book of the Year and a New
Statesman Book of the Year. She is now nearing completion
of Mary and Mr Eliot, a non-fiction account of the twenty-year
friendship between the poet T. S. Eliot and Mary Trevelyan, which is published by Faber & Faber in the UK and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in
the US.
Agent: Eleanor Birne
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