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it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

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Jane Smiley
Age: 76
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Screenwriter
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LA
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Jane Graves Smiley
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