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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Great
Artists
Books
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Writing
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Things
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