It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.
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She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
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Birth: | 13th July, 1957 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
Jane Hamilton was born in Rochester, Wisconsin, USA. She is an American novelist. She graduated from Carleton College in 1979 as an English major. She has written several novels include: The Book of Ruth(Won- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award), A Map of the World, The short history of a prince(Shortlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize), Disobedience, and When Madeline Was Young.
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