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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Really
Novels
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Six
Novel
Pieces
Days
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Four
Nonfiction

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