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David Benjamin Rakoff (November 27, – August 9, ) was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City....
Simon Rakoff (born August 30, ) is a Canadian comedian who began performing professionally in A veteran of the Canadian comedy scene.
David Rakoff - Biography
David Rakoff (born November 27, 1964) is a Canadian-born writer based in New York City who is noted for his humorous, sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff is an essayist, journalist, and actor and is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life.
Rakoff has described himself as a "New York writer" who also happens to be a "Canadian writer", a "Jewish writer", a "gay writer'" and an "East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese" writer.
Biography
David Rakoff was born on November 27, 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
David Rakoff (November 27, – August 9, ) was an essayist, journalist, and actor.He is the youngest of three children: his brother, the comedian Simon Rakoff, is four years older than David and their sister Ruth, a family-conflict mediator, is the middle child. David Rakoff has said that he and his siblings were close as children.
Rakoff's mother, Gina Shochat-Rakoff, is a doctor who has practised psychotherapy and his father, Vivian Rakoff, is a psychia