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Emma Forrest
Emma Forrest (born 26 December 1976) is an English film director, screenwriter and novelist.
Forrest was born in London, England, to a Jewish family. Her American mother, Judy Raines, was also a writer, mainly for British television, and her father is British.
At age fifteen, Forrest wrote a story on Madonna for the London Evening Standard. She left school to write her "Generation X" column for the Sunday Times, writing about various britpop/indie bands "on the road". The Manic Street Preacher member Richey Edwards was the first person Forrest interviewed for the column.
Forrest has worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Time Out, The Guardian, NME and Interview and Blackbook, for whom she interviewed Snoop Dogg and Brad Pitt. In the autumn of 2011, she contributed an essay to the album Ceremonials by Florence and the Machine that was included in the CD booklet.
Forrest has written five novels: Namedropper (1998), Thin Skin (2002), Cherries in the Snow (2005), Royals (2019), and Father Figure, which was released in the UK July 2025.
In 2001 Forrest contributed to an anthology on the writer J. D. Salinger titled Love & Squalor, with an essay describing Salinger's influence on some current young writers. In 2007 she co-wrote and edited her first non-fiction book, Damage Control – Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies, which was an anthology of essays of the emotional pain women suffer for their own physical wellbeing. The book features contributions from women, including Helen Oyeyemi, Marian Keyes and Sarah Jones.
Forrest wrote a memoir, Your Voice in My Head (2011), concerning the death of her psychiatrist and her subsequent break-up with her partner. The memoir was announced as a feature film adaptation to be written by Forrest and directed by Francesca Gregorini, with Emma Watson in the lead role.
In August 2022, Forrest published a second memoir, Busy Being Free, concerning her divorce and return to living in London as a single parent. She shares further memoir-style insights on her Substack, which is titled 'The Peaceful Transfer of Power.'
Emma Forrest
Emma Forrest (born 26 December 1976) is an English film director, screenwriter and novelist.
Forrest was born in London, England, to a Jewish family. Her American mother, Judy Raines, was also a writer, mainly for British television, and her father is British.
At age fifteen, Forrest wrote a story on Madonna for the London Evening Standard. She left school to write her "Generation X" column for the Sunday Times, writing about various britpop/indie bands "on the road". The Manic Street Preacher member Richey Edwards was the first person Forrest interviewed for the column.
Forrest has worked for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Time Out, The Guardian, NME and Interview and Blackbook, for whom she interviewed Snoop Dogg and Brad Pitt. In the autumn of 2011, she contributed an essay to the album Ceremonials by Florence and the Machine that was included in the CD booklet.
Forrest has written five novels: Namedropper (1998), Thin Skin (2002), Cherries in the Snow (2005), Royals (2019), and Father Figure, which was released in the UK July 2025.
In 2001 Forrest contributed to an anthology on the writer J. D. Salinger titled Love & Squalor, with an essay describing Salinger's influence on some current young writers. In 2007 she co-wrote and edited her first non-fiction book, Damage Control – Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies, which was an anthology of essays of the emotional pain women suffer for their own physical wellbeing. The book features contributions from women, including Helen Oyeyemi, Marian Keyes and Sarah Jones.
Forrest wrote a memoir, Your Voice in My Head (2011), concerning the death of her psychiatrist and her subsequent break-up with her partner. The memoir was announced as a feature film adaptation to be written by Forrest and directed by Francesca Gregorini, with Emma Watson in the lead role.
In August 2022, Forrest published a second memoir, Busy Being Free, concerning her divorce and return to living in London as a single parent. She shares further memoir-style insights on her Substack, which is titled 'The Peaceful Transfer of Power.'
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