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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was extremely important to me.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Wuthering
Emily
Heights
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Extremely
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