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Chapters: Neal Stephenson, Bill Bryson, Mildred Benson, R. A. Lafferty, Max Allan Collins, Osha Gray Davidson, David Drake, Wallace Stegner, Susan Glaspell, Robert Dana, Carl Van Vechten, John R. Pierce, Marquis Childs, Dean Schwarz, Marilynne Robinson, Peg Mullen, Robert Coover, James Norman Hall, Kate Harrington, Otha Wearin, Merle Miller, Ted Kooser, Dennis Schmitz, David Rabe, Chris Offutt, Robert Jones Burdette, Dennis Mahony, Johannes B. Wist, Betsy Warland, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Dow Mossman, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Peter Hedges, Michael Gartner, Aagot Raaen, Hugh Sidey, Robert James Waller, Ann Darr, Joanna Klink, Carl Randau, James Stevens, Benjamin F. Gue, Richard Pike Bissell, Rob Borsellino, Eugene Burdick, David Allan Evans, Paul Cain, Bruce B. Brugmann, Mark Salter, Ned Shank, Hartzell Spence, Bob King, Bart Yates. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 211. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, In a Green Tree; a history book, The Fall of Rome; and a number of novels that could be more or less loosely called historical fiction. Lafferty was born on 7 November 1914 in Neola, Iowa to Hugh David Lafferty (a broker dealing in oil leases and royalties) and Julia Mary Burke, a teacher, the youngest of five siblings. His first name, Raphael, derived from the day he was expected to be born on (the Feast of St. Raphael). At the age of 4, his family moved to Perry, Oklahoma. He graduated from Cascia Hall and later attended night school at the University of Tulsa for two years from 1933, mostly studying math and German, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48245 ... Read more

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