Nancy Pickard

I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

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These are some quotes by American author Nancy Pickard Novelist, who was born on September 19, 1945.

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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

Nancy Pickard

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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

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