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Born July 15, 1947 (age 77) • Northampton • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Man Booker International Prize (2013)
Notable Works “Break It Down” • “Can’t and Won’t” • “Essays One” • “Essays Two” • “The Collected Stories” • “The End of the Story” • “The Thirteenth Woman, and Other Stories”
Notable Family Members spouse Paul Auster
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Tillie Olsen
American author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
American author
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
American writer and cultural critic
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
American author
Jhumpa Lahiri, 2013
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
American author
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic
Harriette Arnow
American author
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon
American author
Harlan Ellison.
Harlan Ellison
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
John Updike
John Updike
American author

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