Quiet Dell: A Novel (57 page)

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reprinted with permission of the Clarksburg Publishing Company; the quote used on page
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Mason City Globe-Gazette
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reprinted with permission of the Associated Press; the quote on pages
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Sumner Gazette
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Lyrics on page
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are from “again (after ecclesiastes)” and “for love is strong,” words and music by David Lang, and appear courtesy of the composer.

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: Image taken 10/6/31 and is used with permission of the
Ames Tribune
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: Photographs by Reta Kikutani; Page
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Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of
Lark and Termite, MotherKind, Shelter,
and
Machine Dreams,
and the widely anthologized collections of stories
Fast Lanes
and
Black Tickets
.
Lark and Termite,
winner of the Heartland Prize, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Prix Médicis Étranger. Phillips’ works are published in nine languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey, where she established the Writers at Newark Reading Series. Information, essays, and text source photographs on her fiction can be viewed at
www.JayneAnnePhillips.com
. She divides her time between Boston, New York, and Newark, New Jersey.

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JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
is the author of
Lark and Termite
,
MotherKind
,
Shelter
, and
Machine Dreams
, and the widely anthologized collections of stories
Fast Lanes
and
Black Tickets
. A National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Phillips is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, the Sue Kaufman Prize, and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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