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Emma Brockes (born 1975) is a British author and a contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The New York Times''. She lives in New York.〔(Emma Brockes' blog New York ), guardian.co.uk〕 The daughter of a South-African born mother,〔Emma Brockes ("My mother's secret past" ), extract from ''She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me'' as published in ''The Guardian'', 16 March 2013〕 Brockes read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University〔Emma Brockes ("Bottoms up..." ), ''The Guardian'', 5 March 2003〕 graduating in 1997 with a first.〔("Emma Brockes" ), St Edmund Hall, 〕 At Oxford, she was editor of the student newspaper ''Cherwell''〔("Emma Brockes" ), United Agents〕 and won the Philip Geddes prize for journalism for her work.〔 She worked briefly as feature writer on ''The Scotsman'', before joining ''The Guardian'' in 1997.〔("Visiting Time - Context - The Author: Emma Brockes" ), British Council〕 She has been recognised by the British Press Awards three times, winning the 'Young Journalist of the Year' award in 2001 and the 'Feature Writer of the Year' award in 2002.〔 She was nominated as 'Interviewer of the Year' in 2006.〔Steve Busfield ("British Press Awards as they happened" ), ''The Guardian'', 20 March 2006〕 In 2005, an interview by Brockes in ''The Guardian'' was described by its subject Noam Chomsky as a "scurrilous piece of journalism".〔Stephen Brook ("Guardian pulls Chomsky interview" ), ''The Guardian'', 17 November 2005〕〔Noam Chomsky ("Chomsky Answers Guardian" ), ''Znet'', 13 November 2005〕 ''The Guardian'' later withdrew the article from the website, acknowledging "Ms Brockes's misrepresentation of Prof Chomsky's views on Srebrenica", and offering "an unreserved apology to Prof Chomsky" for Brockes's suggestion that Chomsky denied Srebrenica to be a massacre.〔("Corrections and clarifications: The Guardian and Noam Chomsky" ), ''The Guardian'', 17 November 2005〕 Historian Marko Attila Hoare derided the newspaper as "spineless" and the readers' editors response as "grovelling" partly on the basis that Chomsky ''had'' defended the content of a book by Diana Johnstone, rather than solely her right to publish.〔Marko Attila Hoare ("Chomsky’s Genocidal Denial" ), FrontPage magazine, 23 November 2005〕 An external ombudsman review determined that the "Readers' Editor was right to conclude that an apology and correction was deserved", though adding that "the removal of the original interview from the website was unnecessary and over responsive", a view that Chomsky himself shared.〔John Willis ("External ombudsman report" ), ''The Guardian'', 25 May 2006〕 The text of the original can now be found on Chomsky's official website.〔Emma Brockes ("The Greatest Intellectual?" ), ''The Guardian'', 31 October 2005, as reproduced on Noam Chomsky's website〕 Brockes's first book ''What Would Barbra Do?'' 〔"What Would Barbra Do?" Transworld Publishers Ltd. (2007) ISBN 0-593-05514-4〕 was published in 2007. The ''New York Times Book Review'' responded "Spirited, articulate and utterly devourable ... If I could offer () any advice, it would be ... to write as many books on as many subjects as she can, as fast as is reasonably possible."〔(Sunday Book Review ), ''New York Times'', 27 October 2007〕 Another book ''She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me'' (London: Faber) appeared in 2013.〔 She is now a freelance writer, but continues to write profiles of major public figures for ''The Guardian'', as well as contributing her own work to ''The New York Times'' and other publications. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emma Brockes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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