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I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

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All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12 years of his life, he lived as caretaker of an orange grove. There, on 18 acres, my brother collected cars and trucks and motorcycles.

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My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

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I have not ever been able to decide how would my girls have fared if they came up in a different time?

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Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

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I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

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It's always fun to talk about a novel.

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In 'Love Story,' Oliver Barrett IV comes from generations of wealth and privilege, but when he meets working-class Jennifer Cavilleri, he can't resist. When they marry, his father disowns him, but they struggle on in love, until she's diagnosed with cancer and they can't afford the costly treatments.

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My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

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The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1960

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