Rachel Corbett is a journalist and the author of You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin (W.W. Norton), which won the 2016 Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and New York Magazine, among other publications. She graduated with degrees from the University of Iowa and Columbia University. She lives in New York City.
