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In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Women
Conventions
Different
Crowd
Crowds
Entirely
Fantasy
Fiction
Schizophrenic
Audience
Poland
Science
Harvard

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