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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
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Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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