Emma BrockesEmma Brockes writes for the Guardian and contributes to The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is the winner of two British Press Awards (Young Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer Of the Year) and while at Oxford she wo the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for Journalism. Her last book, She Left Me The Gun, was the story of her mother's life. She lives in New York. Read More Read Less