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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Fiction
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