| Sloane Crosley | |
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| Born | 3 August 1978 |
| Occupation | Publicist, essayist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Subjects | Nonfiction |
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Sloane Crosley (born August 3, 1978) is a writer living in New York and the author of best-selling collections of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number.
She also worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House.
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Crosley graduated from Connecticut College in 2000 with a degree in creative writing.
Crosley's collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, was published by Riverhead Books on April 1, 2008 and became a New York Times bestseller. Since then, HBO has purchased the rights to her book. In 2008, the audio book of I Was Told There'd Be Cake, read by the author, was selected as one of The Best Audio Books Of The Year by Library Journal and was one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2008. In 2009, I Was Told There'd Be Cake was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. How Did You Get This Number, Crosley's second book of essays, was released on June 15, 2010 and also became a New York Times bestseller. Crosley created original dioramas for her debut and paper dolls for her second book. These were used to make a book trailer, which won the Moby Award for Book Trailer As Stand Alone Art Object.
Crosley was a weekly columnist for The Independent in the UK and editor of The Best American Travel Writing 2011. She is included in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American Writers According to Andy Borowitz and The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Dave Eggers, both published in 2011. In December of 2011, Crosley released a short e-book on Amazon.com called Up The Down Volcano, which became a "Kindle Single" bestseller and which Entertainment Weekly called a "hilarious yet harrowing account of summiting the Ecuadorian stratovolcano Cotopaxi — Crosley-style — reads more like an epic than her previous works, yet it retains her signature brand of intelligent humor, which stems from keen observation and honest self-assessment."
Her essays, interviews, fiction and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times, BlackBook magazine, The New York Observer, The Village Voice, Vice Magazine, Elle, Glamour, Vogue, W, Teen Vogue, Vanity Fair, Salon.com, GQ, Spin, Esquire, Playboy Magazine, Self, Maxim Magazine, Plenty Magazine, Page Six Magazine, Mirabella, AFAR Magazine, Bon Appetit, and numerous other literary journals and websites, such as Lumina and Esopus.
From 2004 to 2006, Crosley was a regular contributor to The Village Voice. She was a contributing editor and humor columnist for BlackBook Magazine. She has also appeared on Fox News, Sirius Satellite Radio. MSNBC, The Late Late Show, and is a frequent contributor to NPR's "All Things Considered."
Crosley is on the board of the Young Lions committee at The New York Public Library and Housingworks.
Crosley appeared as herself on the television show Gossip Girl in 2011.