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When I read Jerome D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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