Evgenia Citkowitz Biography
Evgenia Citkowitz is a dramatist, author, and journalist from the United States who previously been named to the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award longlist.
How old is Evgenia Citkowitz? – Age
She is 59 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1964 in New York, United States.
Evgenia Citkowitz Family
Citkowitz was born as the youngest of two daughters to Israel Citkowitz, a pianist, composer, and piano instructor, and Lady Caroline Blackwood, an English novelist. Her parents split in 1972, but her father remained in the neighborhood and helped raise her and her sisters until his death. Citkowitz has four half-brothers and sisters. Robert Lowell, an American poet, was her stepfather.
Citkowitz is a descendant of the Guinness dynasty, a major Irish and British brewing, banking, and political family. Citkowitz is the heir of the Guinness brewery fortune. Citkowitz’s maternal grandparents were Anglo-Irish socialite Maureen Constance Guinness and English statesman Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, an English aristocrat, and Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, an English conservationist and Citkowitz’s sixth cousin, were her uncle and aunt.
Evgenia Citkowitz Education
She went to a boarding school in Devon, England’s south west. During her adolescence, she attended Hammersmith’s St Paul’s Girls’ School. Citkowitz holds an English literature degree from Oxford University. She received a brief education in the United States.
Evgenia Citkowitz Husband – Children
Citkowitz keeps most of her personal life private. Citkowitz married Julian Sands, an English actor, on September 22, 1990, after being introduced by John Malkovich. Sands vanished during a hiking trip in January 2023. In June 2023, his skeletal remains were discovered and identified. The couple has two daughters, and she is the stepmother to Sands’ first marriage’s son. Citkowitz and her family have lived in Los Angeles, California, since 1990.
Evgenia Citkowitz Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Evgenia Citkowitz Career – Books
Ether, a collection of seven short stories and a novella, was Citkowitz’s first book, published in 2010. Ether was chosen as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and was a New Yorker Book Club selection.
Citkowitz’s debut novel, The Shades, is a psychological thriller that was released on June 19, 2018. The Shades explores the effects of a daughter’s death on a family as they try to cope with their loss. Citkowitz noted that the novel’s purpose was to examine the “fragility of human existence,” and that the original tale came from the idea of “someone returning to their childhood home,” which she then expanded on. One of her key goals was to create characters who seemed “authentic as people” in order to elicit empathy from the reader, which is why she explored the complexities of the occupations and hobbies that each of the characters in the novel pursue, such as pottery.
Citkowitz has written for a number of periodicals in the UK and the US, including The Sunday Times, The London Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, and Harper’s Bazaar. Citkowitz has previously been longlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award and was one of The Word Factory’s Neil Gaiman, Fables for a Modern World story competition winners.