Elizabeth McCracken

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Elizabeth McCracken is the author of six previous works: Bowlaway, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, The Giant's House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, and Thunderstruck Other Stories. She has served on the faculty at the lowa Writers' Workshop and toon meer currently holds the James Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin. toon minder

Bevat de namen: E Mccracken, Elizabeth McCracken, McCracken Elizabeth

Fotografie: Elizabeth McCracken at the 2014 Texas Book Festival By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36754723

Werken van Elizabeth McCracken

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The Giant's House (1996) 1,600 exemplaren

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (2008) 573 exemplaren

Bowlaway (2019) 456 exemplaren

Niagara Falls (2001) 427 exemplaren

Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry: Stories (1993) 283 exemplaren

Thunderstruck and Other Stories (2014) 275 exemplaren

The Hero of This Book (2022) 240 exemplaren

The Souvenir Museum: Stories (2021) 197 exemplaren

How to Teach Children Through Stories: A Guide to the Use of the Children's Hour (1917) 4 exemplaren

The American Child (2008) 2 exemplaren

Great-Grandmother's Piece-Book 1 exemplaar

It's Bad Luck to Die 1 exemplaar

The Women of America (2010) 1 exemplaar

The Irish Wedding 1 exemplaar

Juliet 1 exemplaar

Cose dell'altro mondo (2023) 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum: 1966
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Woonplaatsen: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Opleiding: Boston University (BA ∙ English)
Boston University (MA ∙ English)
University of Iowa (MFA)
Drexel University (MS ∙ Library Science)
Newton North High School, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Beroepen: librarian
writer
Relaties: Carey, Edward (husband)
McCracken, Harry (brother)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Granta's Best of Young American Novelists (1996)
Agent: Anthony Goff (David Higham Associates)
Dunow & Carlson (US)

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Het huis van de reus door Elizabeth MacCracken

Ik vond vooral het begin en het eind heel goed, het middelstuk is wat minder. De passage waarin bibliotheekboeken beschreven worden als 'hoeren' is hilarisch!

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