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    Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Makkai grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. She is the daughter of linguistics...
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  • I Have Some Questions for You is a literary mystery novel by Rebecca Makkai. The novel received positive critical reception upon release, and spent six...
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  • The Great Believers is a historical fiction novel by Rebecca Makkai, published June 4, 2018 by Penguin Books. The novel follows two storylines in alternating...
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  • Makkai is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Michael Makkai (born 1939), Canadian mathematician Rebecca Makkai (born 1978), American...
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  • Monk Kidd Stephen King Jamil Jan Kochai D. H. Lawrence Tobsha Learner Rebecca Makkai Hilary Mantel Peter Matthiessen Robert McCloskey Terry McMillan Arthur...
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    related to the library’s collection strengths. Recent speakers include: Rebecca Makkai, Chicago-based author of The Great Believers; Tiya Miles, Professor...
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    Lake Forest College, Houston Oilers, and St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) Rebecca Makkai, author Richard Marx, singer-songwriter Robert McClory, member of the...
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    (b. 1957) The Overstory W. W. Norton & Company (2018) Novel Illinois Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers Tommy Orange, There There 2020 Colson Whitehead...
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    bookstore Munro's Books issued a statement supporting the victim. Novelist Rebecca Makkai wrote, "the revelations don't just defile the artist, but the art itself"...
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  • writer and novelist known for The Girls. Recipient of the Plimpton Prize Rebecca Makkai (MA) 2004 - American novelist and short-story writer Katherine Arden...
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  • Baldwin Joseph Carens Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Elizabeth Teter Lunn Rebecca Makkai, writer and author of The Great Believers, which was shortlisted for...
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  • her many fans." Writing for The New York Times Book Review, author Rebecca Makkai wrote, "While the collection might not coalesce as a unit, it contains...
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  • Michael Leonard, class of 1966, feature reporter for NBC's Today show Rebecca Makkai, class of 1995, author Ralph J. Mills, poet and critic Robert Wilson...
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  • actor Joanna Gaines, television personality, host, and chef April 20 Rebecca Makkai, novelist and short story writer Matthew Wilkas, actor, playwright,...
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  • Dave Eggers, writer Beth Ann Fennelly, writer Jen Lancaster, writer Rebecca Makkai, writer Arthur Meeker Jr., novelist Joseph E. Anderson (1873−1937),...
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  • Hubbard Creative Arts Fiction Alexandra Kleeman Creative Arts Fiction Rebecca Makkai Creative Arts Fiction Dinaw Mengestu Creative Arts Fiction Maaza Mengiste...
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    Patricia Hampl, Edward Hirsch, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, William Kittredge, Rebecca Makkai, Antonya Nelson, Carl Phillips, Natasha Trethewey, Ellen Bryant Voigt...
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    ceremony, where authors Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Francisco Cantu, and Rebecca Makkai won prizes. The spirit of the book festival was broadened and expanded...
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  • books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews. Rebecca Makkai of The New York Times compared the novel favorably to Ulysses while...
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  • and the Dead Charles Major (1856–1913), When Knighthood Was in Flower Rebecca Makkai (born 1978), The Great Believers Clarence Major (born 1936), Painted...
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  • Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (short stories) 1938: Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca 1939: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Sholom Asch, The Nazarene 1940:...
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  • referee Rebecca Makkai (born 1978), American novelist and short-story writer Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, American photographer and website designer Rebecca Malope...
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  • Trip" The Gettysburg Review Yiyun Li "A Man Like Him" The New Yorker Rebecca Makkai "The Briefcase" New England Review Jill McCorkle "Magic Words" Narrative...
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  • Resistance" The Atlantic James Lasdun "The Hollow" The Paris Review Rebecca Makkai "Painted Ship, Painted Ocean" Ploughshares Brendan Matthews "My Last...
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    wins Giller Prize for a second time". Vancouver Sun, November 12, 2004. Rebecca Caldwell, "Who'll win the Giller?". The Globe and Mail, November 10, 2004...
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  • Juliana Lamy You Were Watching from the Sand Catherine Leroux The Future Rebecca Makkai I Have Some Questions for You Mona Susan Power A Council of Dolls Anuja...
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    Kwok Anne Laughlin Dennis Lehane Sabra Loomis Sheryl Luna Jacki Lyden Rebecca Makkai Charles Martin J. Michael Martinez Stephen McCauley Sandra McPherson...
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  • that "reinforce and perpetuate the values of heartland America." 2019: Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers 2018: George Saunders, for Lincoln in the Bardo...
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  • Prophet of Freedom Esi Edugyan, Washington Black Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers Tommy Orange, There There Michael Pollan, How to...
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