First Words
by Paul Mandelbaum
241 pages· 2000· ISBN 9781565122727
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Features the early works of twenty-two renowned American authors, including Pat Conroy, Michael Crichton, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Gore Vidal, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and Stephen King.
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