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Born 1951 (age 74) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors National Book Award (2018)
Notable Works “For Rouenna” • “Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury” • “Naked Sleeper” • “The Friend” • “The Last of Her Kind” • “The Vulnerables” • “What Are You Going Through”

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