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Allegra Huston | |
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Born | London, England | 26 August 1964
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Nationality | British American |
Period | 2009–present |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Notable works | Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found |
Children | 1 |
Parents | Enrica Soma (mother) John Huston (adoptive father) John Julius Cooper (biological father) |
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Allegra Huston (born 26 August 1964) is a British-American author, editor, and writer based in Taos, New Mexico.
She is the author of Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found and the novel A Stolen Summer (Say My Name in hardback), and How to Edit and Be Edited. She is the co-founder of Imaginative Storm Writing Workshops, with James Navé; they are co-authors of Write What You Don't Know: 10 Steps to Writing with Confidence, Energy, and Flow and How to Read for an Audience.
She is also the screenwriter and producer of the short film Good Luck, Mr. Gorski. [1]
Huston was born on 26 August 1964 in London, England. Her mother was ballerina Enrica Soma, and her father was John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich. [2] When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she subsequently moved to Ireland, where she was raised by her mother's estranged husband, film director John Huston. [2] Huston's half-siblings are actress and director Anjelica Huston, writer Tony Huston, writer Artemis Cooper, and Jason Cooper, the 3rd Viscount Norwich.
After earning a degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford, Huston began a career in book publishing, first at Chatto & Windus and then at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, where she was editorial director from 1990 to 1994. After two years as Acquisition and Development Consultant at Pathe Films, London, she left to write and edit as a freelancer. Articles by Huston have appeared in numerous publications, including The Times, Tatler, The Independent on Sunday, Mail on Sunday, YOU magazine, Harper's Bazaar , Newsweek, Mothering, and People . She was on the editorial staff of the biannual art and culture magazine Garage for seven years.[ citation needed ]
Huston teaches regular writing workshops, and has taught at the University of Oklahoma and the Arvon Foundation. In 2023 she was invited to hold a guest masterclass for graduate students in the University of Iowa Writing Program (Iowa Writers' Workshop).
Huston is the mother of a son, Rafael. [3]
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