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Retired, former librarian, former High School English teacher.

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Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Amor Towles, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Henry James, E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton

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