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David Laskin

David Laskin
David Laskin is the author of The Family and The Children's Blizzard, which won the Washington State Book Award and Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for nonfiction. The author of several other works of nonfiction, Laskin writes for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He lives in Seattle.


Why So Many Novelists Write About Writers

David Laskin on an Unyielding Literary Paradox
March 17, 2021  By David Laskin
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