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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Writing
Grown
Although
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Literature
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Aged

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