[1] Brett Leveridge, interview, "David Rakoff", Salon, 11 June 2001: "I think it's far more politically significant that Outside magazine allowed me to, unself-consciously and completely without comment, be visibly, notably gay in a feature article I wrote for it. It didn't have a problem with that at all, and I don't think anybody noticed. But that seemed significant to me."
Father: Vivian Rakoff (psychiatrist)
Mother: Gina Shochat-Rakoff (physician)
Brother: Simon Rakoff (comedian)
Sister: Ruth Rakoff (author)
High School: Forest Hill Collegiate Institute (1982)
University: School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England
University: BA East Asian Studies, Columbia University (1986)
This American Life Regular Contributor
The New York Times Magazine (1999-2002)
Harper Collins
John Kerry for President
MoveOn.org
Naturalized US Citizen 2005 (dual with Canada)
Thurber Prize for American Humor (2011)
Latvian Ancestry
Lithuanian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Former Smoker
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Strangers with Candy (17-Jun-2006)
Capote (2-Sep-2005) · Ben Baron
Author of books:
Fraud: Essays (2001, essays)
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities Of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-ending Quest For Artisanal Olive Oil, And Other First World Problems (2005, essays)
Half Empty (2010, essays)
AKA David Benjamin Rakoff