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About the Authors
ANNIE DILLARD’s most recent books are The Living, a novel, and Mornings Like This, found poems. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
CORT CONLEY 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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Books by Annie Dillard
Modern American Memoirs
The Annie Dillard Reader
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Maytrees
For the Time Being
Mornings Like This
The Living
The Writing Life
An American Childhood
Encounters with Chinese Writers
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Living by Fiction
Holy the Firm
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MODERN AMERICAN MEMOIRS. Copyright © 2007 by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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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.
* Cause for Wonder, 1963.
* Cause for Wonder.
* Cause for Wonder.
Annie Dillard, Modern American Memoirs
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