Through Sedaris, Rakoff met Ira Glass, who was then a junior reporter on the NPR radio program Morning Edition. They became friends, with Rakoff doing work in the theatre with Sedaris, first directing a play written by Sedaris and his sister Amy Sedaris, and later acting in their plays. That day, Rakoff wrote to Sedaris immediately to ask if he could publish Sedaris' works (which he later confessed he had no intention of doing, since he was desperate to leave publishing). Wrote to Sedaris in 1992, after hearing him read on the radio his essay, Santaland Diaries, about being a Christmas elf, which was to make him famous. Rakoff said that he owed David Sedaris and Sedaris' producer, Ira Glass, his entire career. Role of David Sedaris and Ira Glass in Rakoff's career
While Rakoff was working in publishing, he wrote Q and A interviews entitled "The Way We Live Now", which appeared in The New York Times Magazine from 1999 to 2002. Eventually he was able to earn a living from his writing, becoming a full-time writer in 1998. For a period starting when he was 25, Rakoff wrote freelance while working in the publishing industry. He worked at a literary agency for 3 years and then as an editor and communications manager for 9 years at HarperCollins. Main article: David Rakoff bibliography Early career īefore becoming a full-time writer, Rakoff worked for 13 years in the publishing industry, including as a publishing assistant and a publicist. He returned to Toronto for 18 months of treatment, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. His work was interrupted after four months when, at age 22, he contracted Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphatic cancer he referred to as "a touch of cancer".
He worked in Japan as a translator with a fine arts publisher. Rakoff spent his third year of college at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and graduated in 1986. That year, he moved to New York City to attend Columbia University, where he majored in East Asian Studies and studied dance. Rakoff attended high school at the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, and graduated in 1982.
In 1967, when he was three, Rakoff's family relocated to Toronto. The Rakoff family left South Africa in 1961, for political reasons, and moved to Montreal for seven years. Rakoff's grandparents, who were Jewish, fled Latvia and Lithuania at the turn of the 20th century and settled in South Africa. Rakoff wrote that almost every generation of his family fled from one place to another. Rakoff's mother, Gina Shochat-Rakoff, is a doctor who has practised psychotherapy and his father, Vivian Rakoff, is a psychiatrist. Rakoff and his siblings were close as children. Their sister, Ruth Rakoff, author of the cancer memoir When My World Was Very Small, is the middle child. His brother, the comedian Simon Rakoff, is four years older than David. 2.2 Role of David Sedaris and Ira Glass in Rakoff's careerĭavid Rakoff was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of three children.
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