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Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Dead
Arthur
Sleep
Legends
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Sleeping
Waiting
Heroes
Really
Kings
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Hero
Aren
Woken
Instead
Tombs

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