Happy Birthday...authors - TBD2024-03-28T19:56:17Zhttps://teebeedee.ning.com/forum/topics/happy-birthday-authors?groupUrl=ernie-s-hideaway&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFeb 26
It's the birthday o…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-26:1991841:Comment:14886212013-02-26T19:20:40.628ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p>Feb 26</p>
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<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11149"><span class="yiv1691532798note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11171">It's the birthday</span> of the man who said, "To love another person is to see the face of God."</p>
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<p>Feb 26</p>
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<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11149"><span class="yiv1691532798note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11171">It's the birthday</span> of the man who said, "To love another person is to see the face of God."</p>
<p>That's French novelist <strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11157"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vhugo.htm?elq=6176d4ba51f146cab39dda5dbb216cc5&elqCampaignId=903" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11156" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11156">Victor Hugo</a></strong>, born in Besançon, France, on this day in 1802.</p>
<p>He also said,</p>
<p>"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11153">He wrote <em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11154">The Hunchback of Notre Dame</em> (1831) when he was in his 20s and became a celebrity.</p>
<p>He used his fame to advocate for political causes he believed in, like denouncing the autocratic regime of Napoleon III. He encouraged French people to rise up and revolt. Napoleon III declared Hugo an enemy of the state, but Hugo managed to flee the country in disguise just before soldiers showed up to arrest him at his home.</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11151">He went to Brussels before landing at Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, where he lived in exile for the next 20 years. There, he wrote at a fast pace. And he wrote standing up, at a pulpit, looking out across the water.</p>
<p>He had strict minimums for himself: 100 lines of poetry or 20 pages of prose a day. It was during this time that he wrote his masterpiece, <em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361903842481_11152">Les Misérables</em>(1865), about a poor Parisian man who steals a loaf of bread, spends 19 years in jail for it, and after his release becomes a successful small businessman and small-town mayor — and then is imprisoned once again for a minor crime in his distant past. The book was a hugely popular, and Hugo returned to Paris, was elected to the Senate of the new Third Republic, and when he died in 1885 at the age of 82, 2 million people showed up to his funeral, a procession through the streets of Paris.</p> FEB 17
It's the birthday of…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-18:1991841:Comment:14808932013-02-18T00:52:15.968ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p>FEB 17</p>
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<p><span class="yiv183525670note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361140699810_13954">It's the birthday</span><span> of …</span><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361140699810_13917"></strong></p>
<p>FEB 17</p>
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<p><span class="yiv183525670note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361140699810_13954">It's the birthday</span><span> of </span><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361140699810_13917"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/potok.htm?elq=2a186e111e2543d2b75c1419f37da94e&elqCampaignId=810" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361140699810_13916" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1361140699810_13916"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361148224_4">Chaim Potok</span></a></strong><span> (</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Chaim%20Potok&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325&elq=2a186e111e2543d2b75c1419f37da94e&elqCampaignId=810"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361148224_5">books by this author</span></a><span>), born in the Bronx (1929). His parents were immigrants from Poland, and he grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish culture. When he was about 14 years old, he happened to pick up a copy of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, and it changed his life. He said, "I lived more deeply inside the world in that book than I lived inside my own world." And over the years, he read as much as he could, and he moved away from his parents' strict beliefs. But when he started to write fiction, he went back to his childhood, and he wrote </span><em>The Chosen</em><span> (1967), a best-selling novel about two boys growing up together in Brooklyn in the 1940s. Potok continued their story in </span><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361140699810_13914">The Promise</em><span> (1969), and wrote about similar conflicts between religious and secular communities in many more novels, including </span><em>My Name is Asher Lev</em><span> (1972), </span><em>The Book of Lights</em><span> (1981), and a group of three related novellas, </span><em>Old Men at Midnight</em><span> (2001).</span></p> FEB 16
It's the birthday of…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-16:1991841:Comment:14795442013-02-16T16:05:39.523ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p>FEB 16</p>
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<p>FEB 16</p>
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<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11374"><span class="yiv1571329846note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11399">It's the birthday</span> of novelist <strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11383"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.richardfordbooks.com/home?elq=8e0fc6b98cc044d29afa4bab4005e511&elqCampaignId=808" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11382" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11382"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361026714_6">Richard Ford</span></a></strong> (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Richard%20Ford&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325&elq=8e0fc6b98cc044d29afa4bab4005e511&elqCampaignId=808" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11402" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11402">books by this author</a>), born in Jackson, Mississippi (1944). When he was a boy, his mother told him that their neighbor across the street was a writer. He wasn't really sure what that meant, but he could tell it was something important from the way she said it. It turned out that neighbor was Eudora Welty. Ford went to the same elementary school as Welty, and they even had some of the same teachers. But he didn't meet her until many years later.</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11376">When he was eight, his father had a heart attack, and he died from a second heart attack when Richard was 16. For much of his childhood, Ford went back and forth between Mississippi and Little Rock, Arkansas. His grandmother and her second husband, a former prizefighter, ran a hotel in Little Rock, and Ford said, "I did everything in the hotel. I worked in it and I played in it. A lot of things go on in great big hotels, behind closed doors, and I saw behind those doors. Recklessness and mistakes." After college, he tried to work for the Arkansas State Police, but he was rejected. Then he got discharged from the Marines because he had hepatitis. He tried law school — his plan was to be a lawyer for the Marine Corps, and then work for the FBI — but he didn't like it, and he dropped out. Unsure of what to do next, he decided to give writing a try.</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11377">His first novel was <em>A Piece of My Heart</em> (1976), his only novel set in the South. A few years later, he was teaching at Princeton, and Eudora Welty came to do a reading there. He was nervous about meeting her because he was sure she disliked his novel — he said, "I had a feeling she probably knew about it; that it was full of dirty words and sex and violence." He introduced himself and said that he was from Jackson; she said, "Oh, you are?" and nothing else. He was depressed, convinced that she hated his book and disapproved of him.</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11392">Ten years after <em>A Piece of My Heart</em>, Ford published <em>The Sportswriter</em> (1986), the first of his trilogy about Frank Bascombe, a novelist-turned-sportswriter-turned-realtor from New Jersey. Ford did a book signing for <em>The Sportswriter</em> at Lemuria Books in Jackson, and not many people turned up. He said: "Suddenly I looked up and there was Eudora. She'd driven over to the bookstore. She had a deep voice — and I'm making her sound more imperious than she was; she was very sweet — but she said, 'Well, I just had to come pay my respects.'"</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11378">Ford and Welty became good friends. Ford shared an anecdote about his writing mentor: "One hot spring day, I was walking with Eudora Welty through a little shopping mall. It was her birthday, April 13th. There was a surprise party waiting at a bookstore down the way. She was 86. As we walked rather slowly along the glass storefronts, we came to where a wide, smiling, pink-faced man was inflating colorful balloons. As each balloon filled and fattened, the cylinder emitted quite a loud whoosh of air. Eudora looked about to find the sound. 'Balloons,' I said. I had her hand. 'Someone's apparently having a do.' 'Oh,' she said. Those luminous, pale blue eyes igniting, her magical face suppressing once again an amused smile. 'I just thought it was someone who saw me, sighing.'"</p>
<p>When Welty died in 2001, at the age of 92, Ford was a pallbearer at her funeral, and he was her literary executor. He co-edited Welty's <em>Library of America: Collected Writings</em>.</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11397">Ford's sequels to <em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11398">The Sportswriter</em> were <em>Independence Day</em>(1995) and <em>The Lay of the Land</em> (2006); <em>Independence Day</em> won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer, the first novel ever to do so. His most recent book of short stories is <em>A Multitude of Sins</em> (2002).</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1361024665689_11395">He said, "The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing."</p> FEB 15
It's the birthday o…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-16:1991841:Comment:14792422013-02-16T04:29:26.589ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p>FEB 15</p>
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<p>FEB 15</p>
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<p><span class="yiv2081801371note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360983489009_15979">It's the birthday</span><span> of the Father of Modern Science, </span><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360983489009_15982"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/?elq=dd5a7ae533624d0c9759361120d1c8f8&elqCampaignId=794" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360983489009_15981" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360983489009_15981"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360988177_4">Galileo Galilei</span></a></strong><span> </span></p>
<p><span>(</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Galileo%20Galilei&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325&elq=dd5a7ae533624d0c9759361120d1c8f8&elqCampaignId=794" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360983489009_15978" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360983489009_15978"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360988177_5">books by this author</span></a><span>), born in Pisa, Italy (1564). It was Copernicus who suggested that it was the sun, and not the Earth, that was at the center of the universe. But Galileo became a famous public defender of that theory, called heliocentrism. The pope and Galileo were on friendly terms, and the pope encouraged Galileo to write a book outlining the controversy. But of course the pope instructed Galileo that he must not promote heliocentrism, and asked that his own beliefs be represented. So Galileo wrote </span><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360983489009_16001">Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems</em><span>, which purported to be a debate between two philosophers; but one of the two, Simplicio, sounded stupid, and it was this figure that acted as a mouthpiece of the pope. No one knows whether Galileo deliberately attacked the Pope — it's probable that he just couldn't write as convincing of an argument from a philosophy that undermined his own scientific beliefs. In any case, the pope was definitely not a fan of the book, and Galileo was put on trial for heresy. He publicly renounced his views, but he still spent the rest of his life under house arrest, and his books were banned.</span></p> tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-13:1991841:Comment:14773602013-02-13T23:13:10.479ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
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It's the birthday o…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-13:1991841:Comment:14772102013-02-13T23:02:39.546ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p>FEB 13</p>
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<p><span class="yiv126011646note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360730811201_20110">It's the birthday</span><span> of novelist </span><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360730811201_20086"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/10/10/111010crat_atlarge_acocella?elq=8c979fd8bb5146a689f370b351095a66&elqCampaignId=762" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360730811201_20085" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360730811201_20085"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360774113_4">Georges Simenon</span></a></strong><span> (</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Georges%20Simenon&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325&elq=8c979fd8bb5146a689f370b351095a66&elqCampaignId=762" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360730811201_20109" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360730811201_20109"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360774113_5">books by this author</span></a><span>) born in Liége, Belgium (1903). He's one of the most prolific writers of all time, best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret. He wrote some 400 books, which sold more than 1.4 billion copies from 1935 to 1997. Each book took him on average eight days to write.</span></p> two people that changed the w…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-13:1991841:Comment:14764682013-02-13T01:21:46.772ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p>two people that changed the world were born of February 12 in 1809</p>
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<p><span class="note_intro">Abraham Lincoln</span><span> (</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Abraham%20Lincoln&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">books by this author</a><span>) was born on…</span></p>
<p>two people that changed the world were born of February 12 in 1809</p>
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<p><span class="note_intro">Abraham Lincoln</span><span> (</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Abraham%20Lincoln&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">books by this author</a><span>) was born on this day near Hodgenville, Kentucky (1809). Though he's generally considered possibly the greatest president in our country's history, fairly little is known about his early life. Unlike most presidents, he never wrote any memoirs. We know that he was born in a log cabin and had barely a year of traditional schooling. His mother died when he was nine, and he spent much of his adolescence working with an ax. But when he was in his early 20's, Lincoln apparently decided to make himself into a respectable man. Residents of the town of New Salem, Illinois, said that they remembered Lincoln just appearing in their town one day. People remembered him because he was one of the tallest people anyone had ever seen, about 6 foot 4, and the pants that he wore were so short that they didn't even cover his ankles.</span></p>
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<p><span class="note_intro">Charles Darwin</span> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Charles%20Darwin&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" target="_blank">books by this author</a>) was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (1809). On the famous voyage to the southern tip of South America when he was only 22, Darwin brought with him a book called Principles of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell, which suggested that the earth was millions of years old. And along the journey, Darwin got a chance to explore the Galapagos Islands. These islands were spaced far enough apart that the animals on them had evolved over time into different species.</p>
<p>It took him a long time to publish his findings, mainly because he was afraid of being attacked as an atheist. But about 20 years after he first came up with the idea, he published his groundbreaking book <em>On the Origin of Species</em> (1859).</p>
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<p> <strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6549"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/behan.htm?elq=fa4cc2c1e5af4d77b1edef282afb24be&elqCampaignId=709" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6548" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6548"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360642175_6">Brendan Behan</span></a></strong></p>
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<div class="separator"><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6550"><span class="yiv2145367note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6557">It's the birthday</span> of Irish playwright and novelist <strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6549"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/behan.htm?elq=fa4cc2c1e5af4d77b1edef282afb24be&elqCampaignId=709" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6548" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6548"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360642175_6">Brendan Behan</span></a></strong> (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Brendan%20Behan&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325&elq=fa4cc2c1e5af4d77b1edef282afb24be&elqCampaignId=709" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6556" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6556">books by this author</a>), born in Dublin (1923). He grew up in one of the poorest sections of Dublin. His father took part in the Irish rebellion in the early 1920s, and when Brendan was born, his father was being held in a British prison. When Brendan was nine years old, he joined a youth organization that had ties to the IRA. He later called the group "the Republican Boy Scouts." He rose through the ranks of the IRA, and by the time he was 16 he was being sent on missions to bomb British targets.</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_6552">He spent most of the 1940s in prison. First he was thrown in jail for carrying a suitcase full of homemade explosives through the streets of Liverpool. After he got out, he was arrested for the attempted murder of two policemen. It was during his second stay in prison that he began to write. He wrote his first play, <em>The Quare Fellow</em><em> </em>(1956), about the execution of a convict in a Dublin prison. When he got out of prison, it became a big hit in London and then New York. He followed that up with the novel <em>Borstal Boy</em> (1958) and <em>The Hostage</em><em> </em>(1958), in which he wrote:</p>
<p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360637712147_7233">"Never throw stones at your mother,<br/>You'll be sorry for it when she's dead,<br/>Never throw stones at your mother,<br/>Throw bricks at your father instead."</p>
</div> Jurors for the 1999 Rea Award…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-11:1991841:Comment:14743362013-02-11T16:08:51.016ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p align="left"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif">Jurors for the 1999 Rea Award, Robert Coover, Susan Dodd, and John Edgar Wideman, said the following of her work:</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif">"The stories of Joy Williams dissolve the lines between chaos and certainty in our daily lives. A single word or sentence, heartbreakingly familiar yet utterly unexpected, ushers us abruptly out of bounds, off-limits. Because…</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif">Jurors for the 1999 Rea Award, Robert Coover, Susan Dodd, and John Edgar Wideman, said the following of her work:</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif">"The stories of Joy Williams dissolve the lines between chaos and certainty in our daily lives. A single word or sentence, heartbreakingly familiar yet utterly unexpected, ushers us abruptly out of bounds, off-limits. Because her prose is precise and unyielding, because the possibilities her stories imagine - funny, nasty, subversive, enlightening, scary - are compelling alternatives to the usual spin we put on things, we are seduced, freed to examine the arbitrariness of the particular peace or unpeace we've negotiated with the world. But even as it makes us uncomfortable, Joy Williams' fiction renders more light, more life."</font></p> FEB 11
It's the birthday of…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2013-02-11:1991841:Comment:14742422013-02-11T16:08:25.016ZJulia A Knaakehttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/JULIAAKNAAKE
<p>FEB 11</p>
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<p><span class="yiv7585899note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2167">It's the birthday</span><span> of writer …</span><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2081"></strong></p>
<p>FEB 11</p>
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<p><span class="yiv7585899note_intro" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2167">It's the birthday</span><span> of writer </span><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2081"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.reaaward.org/html/joy_williams.html?elq=9882028a71a643dab8ba18094aa15191&elqCampaignId=717" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2080" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2080"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360598441_4">Joy Williams</span></a></strong><span> (</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Williams/e/B001IXTTPK/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&qid=1360373190&sr=8-3&tag=writal-20&elq=9882028a71a643dab8ba18094aa15191&elqCampaignId=717" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2168" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2168"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1360598441_5">books by this author</span></a><span>) born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts (1944). Williams went to college and grad school in the Midwest, but she decided she needed to live someplace more mysterious and exotic, so she moved to a trailer park in northern Florida, surrounded by swamps and alligators and snakes. She said: "I was miserable, of course. But it was all very good for my writing. It's good to be miserable and a little off-balance." The result was her first novel,</span><em>State of Grace</em><span> (1973), which got great reviews. Her fourth (and most recent) novel, </span><em id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360598546451_2166">The Quick and the Dead</em><span> (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.</span></p>
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