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Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

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Mark Helprin
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 28
Author
Journalist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Fiction
Grace
Conspires
Words
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Accident
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Accidents
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