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Offline ColonialMarine0431

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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #25 on: January 16, 2010, 05:58:47 PM »
Arkansas: John Grisham

Where I am now, Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She was born in D.C. but lived here most of her life and wrote "The Yearling" among many others.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2010, 03:01:12 AM »
In addition to the insipid, unreadable Jean Auel, OR has Ursula K Leguin, Phyllis McGinley, William Stafford, Beverly Cleary, and Ken Kesey. A bit of trivia: Ken Kesey and Kip Kinkle went to the same high school.

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