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Rachel Toor's ambition, on graduating from Yale University, was to work on a dude ranch in Wyoming (never having been to a dude ranch—or to Wyoming). Moving to Missoula, Montana for an MFA in creative writing is the closest she's come. After a dozen years as an editor of scholarly books, at Oxford and Duke University Presses, she slid down the ladder of social mobility and did a stint in college admissions, quitting to write Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process (St. Martin's, 2001) in an attempt to demystify an arcane and brutalizing rite of passage. After a bunch of years contributing essays to The Chronicle of Higher Education and working as a Senior Writer for Running Times magazine, she published a memoir, The Pig and I: How I Learned to Love Men (Almost) As Much as I Love My Pets (Penguin, 2005). In Fall, 2008, the University of Nebraska Press will publish her next book, Personal Record: One Woman's Love Affair with Running Or, Why Running for Many Hours on Rocky, Rooty and Gnarly Trails Where You Get Muddy and Bloody and Your Whole Everything Hurts So Much that You're Crying for Your Mommy is the Most Fun A Person Can Ever Have. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Reader's Digest, Marathon & Beyond and a variety of other more academically-oriented publications. Titles from Rachel Toor:  ..  |
