Brodeur is the daughter of New Yorker writer Paul Brodeur and food writer Malabar Brewster.[4] Her grandfather was the board chairman of Dayton, Price & Co., Ltd., a New York exporting and shipping firm.[5][6] Her mother remarried in 1974 to Henry Hornblower II, a grandson of Henry Hornblower, founder of the investment firm Hornblower & Weeks, which eventually became part of Lehman Brothers through various mergers. Her stepfather founded the Plimoth Plantation and served as its president.[7]
She was raised on Cape Cod. In her memoir, Brodeur writes about her relationship with her mother, whose affair she helped hide from her stepfather Charles Greenwood.[8][9] In interviews she has said that it took her two and a half years to write the book and "a lifetime to process [it].[10]"
In 2005, Brodeur became an editor at Harcourt HMH Books, where she acquired and edited literary fiction and memoir.[1] She left publishing in 2013 to become Creative Director of Aspen Words, where she is now executive director. In 2017, Brodeur launched the Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.[3]
Personal life
Brodeur splits her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cape Cod. She lives with her husband and two children.[1]
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