Alexander Chee

I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

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My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

Alexander Chee

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I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

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My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.

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