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David Rakoff
David Benjamin Rakoff (November 27, 1964 – August 9, 2012) was a Canadian-born American writer based in New York City who was noted for his humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a regular contributor to WBEZ's ''This American Life''. Rakoff described himself as a "New York writer" who also happened to be a "Canadian writer", a "mega Jewish writer", a "gay writer" and an "East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese" writer.〔("David Rakoff – This morning: Sunday edition" ), ''Cbc.ca''. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕
==Personal life==
David Rakoff was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of three children. His brother, the comedian Simon Rakoff, is four years older than David and their sister Ruth Rakoff, author of the cancer memoir ''When My World Was Very Small'', is the middle child.〔Johnson, Sharilyn, ("Preview: Simon and David Rakoff" ), ''Uptown Magazine'', June 6, 2006. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕〔Hamson, Sarah. ("David Rakoff: Canada's Big Apple Peeler" ). ''Globe and Mail'', October 22, 2005. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕 Rakoff has said that he and his siblings were close as children.〔〔Rakoff, David, "My sister of perpetual mercy" in ''A member of the family: gay men write about their families'' (1992) (edited by John Preston)〕 Rakoff's mother, Gina Shochat-Rakoff, is a doctor who has practised psychotherapy and his father, Vivian Rakoff, is a psychiatrist.〔("Luxuries are getting the better of us" ), ''canadaeast.com –TT Life'', October 27, 2005. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕 Rakoff has written that almost every generation of his family fled from one place to another.〔Rakoff, David, ("About men: extraordinary alien" ), ''The New York Times'', October 9, 1994. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕 Rakoff's grandparents, who were Jewish, fled Latvia and Lithuania at the turn of the 20th century and settled in South Africa.〔 The Rakoff family left South Africa in 1961 for political reasons, moving to Montreal for seven years.〔Zimmer, Elizabeth, ("The hungry eye" ), ''The Australian'', August 16, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕 In 1967, when he was three, Rakoff's family moved to Toronto.〔Rakoff, David, ("About men: extraordinary alien" ), ''The New York Times'', October 9, 1994. Retrieved January 20, 2010. See also Walters, Juliet, ("Just for Laughs: just for lunch: writer David Rakoff on Schwartz's, ethics, and comedy" ), ''Montreal Mirror'', 2007. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕 As an adult, he said that he identified as Jewish.〔(NPR Interview with Terry Gross ), May 14, 2001. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕
Rakoff attended high school at the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, graduating in 1982. In the same year he moved to New York City to attend Columbia University, where he majored in East Asian Studies and studied dance.〔 Rakoff spent his third year of college at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and graduated in 1986. Rakoff worked in Japan as a translator with a fine arts publisher. His work was interrupted after four months when, at 22, he became ill with Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphatic cancer which he has referred to as "a touch of cancer". He returned to Toronto for eighteen months of treatment, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.
From 1982, Rakoff lived in the United States (minus his four-month stay in Japan in 1986), first as a student, then as a resident alien. In the early 1990s he was issued a green card, a subject about which he wrote in one of his early newspaper articles.〔 After living in the United States for twenty-one years, Rakoff was motivated by a desire to participate in the political process and applied for U.S. citizenship.〔Salazar-Rubio, Sofia, ("Author David Rakoff on the Charmed Life of a Writer" ), ''The Daily Californian'', February 28, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2010.〕 Rakoff chronicled the experience of becoming an American citizen in an essay published in ''Don't Get Too Comfortable''. He became a U.S. citizen in 2003, while at the same time retaining his Canadian citizenship.
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