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Benjamin Ludwig

Benjamin Ludwig

How to pronounce Benjamin Ludwig: LUHD-wig

Benjamin Ludwig Biography

Benjamin Ludwig is the author of Ginny Moon, which was a Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers selection, one of Amazon.com's 20 Best Books of 2017, and received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, BookPage, and Booklist. His novella, Sourdough, won the 2013 Clay Reynolds Prize for the Novella. A former English teacher and new-teacher mentor, he holds an MAT in English education and an MFA in creative writing.

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    Born in Manhattan and raised in New Jersey, Eli Gottlieb has worked as a Senior Editor of Elle Magazine and taught American Literature as a Lecturer at the University of Padova, Italy. He is the author of Best Boy, among ... (more)

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