Background
Born in Boston, Rabb grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where his father, Theodore K. Rabb, taught history at the university.
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Jonathan Rabb
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Yale University; Columbia University.
Career
While at Yale, Rabb sang with the Whiffenpoofs and performed in numerous productions, eventually finding himself in New York, where he continued to act and sing both Office-Broadway (Fermat’s Last Tango). and at Carnegie Hall with the New York City Pops. After leaving Columbia, Rabb began to write fiction. His first novel, The Overseer, was published in 1998.
This was followed in 2001 by the historical thriller, The Book of Q. Rabb released the first novel of the Berlin trilogy, Rosa, in 2005, followed in 2009 by Shadow and Light and The Second Son in 2011.
Rabb has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the 92nd Street Y and, in 2010, he joined the writing department faculty at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Rosa was named in January Magazine’s Best Books of 2005.
Achievements
Politics
He studied political science at Yale University from 1982 to 1986 and earned an Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy in political theory from Columbia University. Rabb has also published a string of short stories, essays, reviews and op-eds in Strand Magazine, The Oxford American, Opera News, The Huffington Post and in the series ‘I Wish I’d Been There.’ (Doubleday).
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