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If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Austen Civil Civil War Eclectic Henry James Jane Jane Austen Letters Library Look Margaret Max Notice Personal Pretty Tom Volumes War Will You

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I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Before Ghost Guess Loved Matter Only Stories Time Wrote

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Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Fun Ghost Love Read Story Them Well Why Write Yes I Love

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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Genocide Grandparents Graves Like Many Most Stories Survivors Took

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There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Childhood Girl Lot

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The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: America Armenians Century First First World First World War Genocide Knows Million Most Next North North America Nothing Reality Slaughter Systematic War World World War

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I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Always American Aware Could Daughters Did Discuss Even Father Genocide Grandparents How Immigrants Like Many Possible Sons Though Wanted

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I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Barely Halfway Here Highest Live Mountain People State Third Thousand Up Vermont Village

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On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Because City Conflict Conservative Culture Fascinated Grew Guy Hand Likely Maybe Me Most New New York New York City Other Our Parents Side Suburbs Transition Up Very Where Who York

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As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Accent Because Calling Calls Despairing Expect Grow Lifetime Nba Never Never Expect Novelist Oprah Oprah Winfrey Phone Phone Calls Receive Stockholm Swedish Them Three Waited Would You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 12th, 1962

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