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I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Brooklyn
Jackson
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Shirley
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