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Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian Books by this author at BookBrowse:
The Great Night
A Better Angel
The Children's Hospital

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Chris Adrian Biography

Chris Adrian was born in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a medical student in Virginia. Part of this novel first appeared in The New Yorker under the title 'Every Night for a Thousand Years' and was subsequently collected in Best American Short Stories 1998. His fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, and Story.
This biography was last updated on 11/14/2008.
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