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May 2017 Issue Jay Parini Tender Is the Writer Paradise Lost: A Life of F Scott Fitzgerald By David S Brown I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories By F Scott Fitzgerald (Edited by Anne Margaret Daniel)
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June 2003 Issue Jessica Mann Student of Suspense Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith By Andrew Wilson LR
October 2003 Issue Richard Gray The Private Life of an American Dreamer Arthur Miller: A Life By Martin Gottfried LR
November 2007 Issue Brenda Maddox On the Stein Trail Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm LR
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