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It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.

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Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

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My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.

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I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.

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My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.

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I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.

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You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.

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I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

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When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer.

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I work at a non-profit called ALS Worldwide, where we work with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) patients and families. It is often heavy work, but I'm grateful to be able to contribute to the ALS community. I'm constantly learning about science and medicine, and I have the honor of corresponding with patients throughout the world.

~Chloe Benjamin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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