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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
Writer
Washington
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