Clasp (Crosley)

Author Bio
• Birth—August 3, 1978
• Where—N/A
• Education—B.A., Connecticut College
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York


Sloane Crosley is an essay and fiction writer living in New York. She has worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s Master of Fine Arts program. She graduated from Connecticut College in 2000.

Career
Crosley's collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, became a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for The Thurber Prize, one of Amazon.com's best books of the year and optioned for series by HBO.

Her second essay collection, How Did You Get This Number (2010) also became a New York Times bestseller, and her e-book, Up The Down Volcano (2011), became a #1 Amazon Kindle bestseller.

The Clasp (2015), Crosley's debut novel, received high marks from the New York Times, as well as from Vogue, Elle, Time, and People.

Crosley was a has also been a weekly columnist for The Independent in the UK and editor of The Best American Travel Writing 2011. Her essays have appeared in 2011's The Best American Nonrequired Reading and The Library of America's The 50 Funniest American Writers According to Andy Borowitz.

She was the founding columnist for the New York Times "Townies" Op-Ed series, a columnist for the New York Observer Diary, a columnist for the Village Voice, a contributing editor at BlackBook Magazine, and she continues to be a regular contributor to the New York Times, GQ, Elle and NPR.

Crosley has also written cover stories and features for Salon, Spin, Bon Appetit, Vogue, Esquire, Playboy, W Magazine and AFAR.

Other
Crosley is co-chair of The New York Public Library's Young Lions Committee and serves on the board of Housingworks Bookstore.

Crosley is also a model for eyeglass company Warby Parker. In 2012, she appeared on the TV series Gossip Girl as herself and she was a regular fixture on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 1/3/2016.)