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I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn't have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we know about them, sometimes we don't. Sometimes we have an inkling that there's something hidden, but I think that it touches everybody's life.

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I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

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I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

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'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

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I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have a great grandfather on my mother's side who was a musician, and I'd like to know more about his life.

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There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

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I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.

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The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

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I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

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You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 4th, 1958

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