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  • Evelyn Barish
    Evelyn Barish is a professor at City University of New York's Graduate Center and its College of Staten Island, and the author of Emerson:The Roots of Prophecy, for which she won the Christian Gauss ...

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    The Double Life of Paul De Man
  • Josh Barkan
    Josh Barkan
    Josh Barkan was born in Santa Monica, California. At the age of three he moved to Iowa City, where his mother taught comparative literature and his father political science at the University of Iowa. ...

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    Mexico

  • Clive Barker
    Clive Barker is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, including the New York Times bestsellers Abarat; Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War; and The Thief of Always. He is also an acclaimed ...

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  • Kim Barker
    Kim Barker
    Kim Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009, based in New Delhi and Islamabad. Her book about those years, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and...

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    The Taliban Shuffle

  • Michelle Barker
    Michelle Barker is an award-winning author whose works include YA historical fiction, poetry, a picture book, and a fantasy novel. Michelle also works as a senior editor at The Darling Axe and leads ...

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    The House of One Thousand Eyes
  • Nicola Barker
    Nicola Barker is the author of more than ten novels, including The Yips (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), Darkmans (shortlisted for the Booker and the Ondaatje Prize and winner of the Hawthornden...

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    The Cauliflower
  • Pat Barker
    Pat Barker
    Par Barker is the author of Union Street, Blow Your House Down, Liza's England, The Man Who Wasn't There, the Regeneration trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road, which won the...

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    The Women of Troy

  • Raffaella Barker
    Raffaella Barker, daughter of the poet George Barker, was born and brought up in the Norfolk countryside. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels: Come and Tell Me Some Lies, The Hook, Hens ...

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    From a Distance

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