Mary Ann Shaffer







Mary Ann Shaffer

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born
January 01, 1934

died
February 01, 2008

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female

place of birth
Martinsburg, West Virginia, The United States

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Mary Ann Shaffer worked as an editor, a librarian, and in bookshops. Her life-long dream was to someday write her own book and publish it. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel. Unfortunately, she became very ill with cancer and so she asked her niece, Annie Barrows, the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half, to help her finish the book. Mary Ann Shaffer died in February 2008, a few months before her first novel was published.




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The Guernsey Literary and Pota... The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
avg rating 4.21 — 12,845 ratings — published 2007
17 editions
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"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."
Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
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"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."
Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
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"Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."
Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
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