– Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist and essayist. She has written numerous essays and six novels, including Station Eleven (2014) and The Glass Hotel (2020). Station Eleven, which has been translated into 33 languages, has been adapted into a limited series on HBO Max, which premiered on December 16, 2021. The Glass Hotel was translated into 20 languages and selected by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books from the year 2020. Her most recent novel, Sea of Tranquility, was published in April 2022 and debuted at number 3 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
– Mandel was born in Merville, British Columbia, Canada to a Canadian mother, a social worker, and an American father, a plumber. St. John, her grandmother’s surname, is her middle name. She moved, with her parents and four siblings, to Denman Island off the west coast of British Columbia at the age of 10. She was home-schooled there until the age of 15, during which time she began writing daily in a diary, and left high school at 18 to study contemporary dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. She then lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York City.
– After leaving The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Mandel worked with independent choreographers.
– In 2002, in Montreal, Mandel began writing Last Night in Montreal.
– Mandel was an administrative assistant at Anderson Center for Cancer Research at Rockefeller University.
– Mandel is a staff writer for The Millions, an online magazine.
– Mandel picked up a free newspaper in Toronto, read a book review and began corresponding with the author. Later, he became her boyfriend and they moved to New York City, where she met her husband.
A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
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