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  <name><![CDATA[Chris Adrian]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Chris Adrian was born in Washington D.C. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a medical student in Virginia. Part of this novel first appeared in The New Yorker under the title &quot;Every Night for a Thousand Years&quot; and was subsequently collected in Best American Short Stories 1998. His fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, and Story.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>washington D.C.</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Children's Hospital]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gob's Grief: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Better Angel: Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gob's Grief: A Novel]]></title>
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