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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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