“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”
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Author detail
Jane Hamilton was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, the youngest of five children. In 1979 she received a degree in English from Carleton College. In 1983, her first published short stories were published in Harper's Magazine in 1983. In 1988, her first novel, The Book of Ruth, was published. It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, and the Wisconsin Library Association Banta Book Award in 1989, and was an Oprah's Book Club selection in 1996. In her second novel, A Map of the World, was published, followed by The Short History of a Prince in 1998. The Short History of a Prince was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998 and was shortlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize. She currently lives in Rochester, Wisconsin.
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“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”
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“I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you d...”
“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”
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“In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.”
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“'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!”
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“I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.”
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“There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could...”
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“I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.”
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“I experienced unrequited love early.”
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