Rebecca Johns’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Author
Is Writer 
Novelist 
From United States of America 
Type Literature 
Gender female

Rebecca Johns (born 1971) is an author and educator. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of Icebergs and The Countess. Johns is a member of the DePaul University English Department and teaches annually at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City.

Early career

Rebecca Johns grew up in northern Illinois and attended Antioch Community High School. She then attended University of Missouri at Columbia, where she majored in Journalism and English (1993). Johns has written for several notable publications, including Mademoiselle, Woman’s Day, Self, Cosmopolitan, the Chicago Tribune, Ladies’ Home Journal, the Harvard Review, the Mississippi Review and Ploughshares.

Novels

Icebergs

Johns is the author of Icebergs (2006) (ISBN 1582344981), which opens in Canada during World War II with a harrowing plane crash. Crewmember Walt Dunmore returns home, but his life and those of his family are forever altered by the damage the tragedy causes. Icebergs follows Walt and his family from Canada to the United States through multiple generations, with the past casting a shadow over their lives. Icebergs was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship.

The Countess

The Countess is Johns’s newest work (October 2010) (ISBN 0307588467). The novel follows the life of Elizabeth Báthory (Erzsebet Báthory), the “Blood Countess” who was one of the historical figures some believe inspired the fictional Dracula.

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