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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

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Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

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I delight in what I fear.

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I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 14th, 1919

Died: August 8th, 1965

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