Rachel Corbett (art journalist)
# Rachel Corbett (art journalist)

Rachel Corbett (born 1984) is an American author and journalist. She is the author of the book You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, published by W.W. Norton in 2016. She was the executive editor of Modern Painters from 2016-2017. Prior to that she worked as a correspondent for The Art Newspaper.

## Life

Corbett studied at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Iowa. Her 2016 book, You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, won the Marfield Prize.

## Selected works

### Books

* Corbett, Rachel (2016). You must change your life : the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin. New York: W. W. Norton.

### Essays and reporting

* Corbett, Rachel (July 3, 2017). "Gottschee question". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Dirndls. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 19. pp. 20–21.
* Corbett, Rachel (October 18, 2018). "The Culture Wars of Car Racing." The New York Times Magazine.
* Corbett, Rachel (October, 2019). "Medicaid's Dark Secret: For many participants, the program that provides health care to millions of low-income Americans isn’t free. It’s a loan. And the government expects to be repaid." The Atlantic.
