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  <name><![CDATA[Mary Ann Shaffer]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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. &lt;i&gt;The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society&lt;/I&gt; 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 &lt;i&gt;Ivy and Bean&lt;/I&gt;, as well as &lt;i&gt;The Magic Half&lt;/I&gt;, to help her finish the book. Mary Ann Shaffer died in February 2008, a few months before her first novel was published.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Martinsburg, West Virginia</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1934</born_at>  <died_at>02/01/2008</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Annie Barrows]]></name>
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