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Brigid Pasulka
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Gaynor Arnold
A conversation with Gaynor Arnold, whose first novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, tells a fictionalized account of the life of Charles Dickens's second wife, Catherine Dickens.
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Jeannette Walls has the blessed curse of a debut smash-hit. With her memoir The Glass Castle selling more than 2.5 million copies, the heat must have been on while working through Half Broke Horses: a True-Life Novel. Well, fear not. Hearing her readers cry for more family lore, Walls returns with the irresistible tale of grandmother Lily Casey Smith.
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