Jhumpa Lahiri
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CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ... DAN HILL ROBERT ANTHONY I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents. DAVID KEITH I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. BILL GRIFFITH One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ... BETTY CUTHBERT I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou... BEL POWLEY When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t... NATALIE ZEA If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd ... TROY GARITY ORLANDO BLOOM To me, it was the most fascinating sign in Boston. I asked my parents about it when I was very young... MIKE ROSS GARY SHTEYNGART JOHN HUME My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my dec... EUDORA WELTY I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot... ANTHONY BROWNE MARILYNNE ROBINSON BONO HENRI NOUWEN JENNA MORASCA When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my... MISTY COPELAND When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid ev... GEORGE WEAH I wasn't really watching a lot of other divers I was just trying to zone in on my game. I was hit... DAVID PIERCY CLIVE ANDERSON I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo... ROBERT H. GRUBBS
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