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Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Became Editor

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It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Actually Angry Attention Away Back Because Drawer Edinburgh Essentially Felt Get Had Idea Life Like Me Much Much Attention My Life Night Off Oh Out Pulled Queen Really Ruined Sort Taking Thought Took Until While

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My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Been Deed Family Farm George King Maine Mother Over Same Years Iii

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A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Desire Either Ignored Terrifying Woman

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Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: After Away Delicate Endangered Even Falcon Famous Her La Newly Paris Performance Returned She Silences Soprano Speaking Spent Voice Whose Year

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When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Asking Even Human Kept Like Maine People Town You

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My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Background Became Because Ethnic Fascinated Future Had Kid Me Rescued Scene School Singer Singing Sopranos Unpopular Voice Who Women

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I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Aware Been Boy Choir Date Had Professional Soprano Voice You Your

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My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Also Art Began Clothes Draw Drawing Early Fascination Fashion Fashionable Had Her Made Magazines Middle Middle School Mother Own School She Show Suggested Teacher Them Very Woman Women Would

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I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Context Details Fiction Fiction Writer Find Historian Learned Need Provide Quickly Sort Useful Via Would Writer You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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