Isabel Fonseca
Author
1961 –
Who is Isabel Fonseca?
Isabel Fonseca is an American writer.
She is the youngest of Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca's four children, and the sister of the painters Caio Fonseca and Bruno Fonseca.
She attended Concord Academy and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College in 1984. She then studied at Wadham College, Oxford and worked in publishing and newspapers in London, notably at the Times Literary Supplement.
She is the author of the bestselling Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, a non-fiction book relating to the lives of Romani people. The book is organized in eight chapters with sections; it contains black and white photographs and maps.
Her debut novel, Attachment, was published by Alfred A Knopf in 2009.
She lived in Uruguay for two and a half years with her husband, the writer Martin Amis, with whom she has two daughters. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- Born
- 1961
New York City - Spouses
- Martin Amis
(1996 - )
- Martin Amis
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Columbia University
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on July 23, 2013
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