Rebecca Makkai is an American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, The Borrower, was released in June 2011. It was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an O Magazine selection, and one of Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. Her short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and have also appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, and Shenandoah. Her nonfiction has appeared in Harpers and on Salon.com. Makkai?s stories have also been featured on Public Radio International?s Selected Shorts and This American Life. Her second novel, The Hundred-Year House, is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July, 2014, having received starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Makkai, who grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois, is the daughter of lingusitics professors Valerie Becker Makkai and Adam Makkai, who are also published authors. Her paternal grandmother, Ignacz Rozsa, was a well known actress and novelist in Hungary. 

April 20th, 1978 in (Age 46)