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Authors: Annie Dillard
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Notes of a Native Son
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Growing Up
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A Childhood
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Left Handed
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
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Fierce Attachments
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Court of Memory
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This Boy's Life
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Facts of Life
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Will's Boy
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Blackberry Winter
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Stop-time
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Bronx Primitive
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Going to the Territory
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The Same River Twice
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A
NNIE
D
ILLARD
's most recent books are
The Living,
a novel, and
Mornings Like This,
found poems. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
C
ORT
C
ONLEY
lives in Idaho, where he was the director of the University of Idaho Press, writes about local history, and works as a guide on the River of No Return.
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MODERN AMERICAN MEMOIRS.
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Mr. Matthew Bruccoli, another Bronx drugstore child, has written to say that he remembers with certainty that Mr. Jaffe did not smoke. In my memory the cigar is somehow there, so I leave it.
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Cause for Wonder
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