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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

Tanith Lee

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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
Nothing
Publishing
Writer
Started
Knew
Anything

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