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October 18, 1951 in Providence Rhode Island, The United States

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Born in Providence, RI, raised in Middlefield (Rockfall) Connecticut. Post High School Education, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT and Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT.
Married, two grown daughters and a granddaughter and grandson.
Lives in Oak Bluffs, MA, on Martha's Vineyard.

Those are the stats. I am a novelist, seven published, one in progress, and a occasional columnist for the Martha's Vineyard Times, writing my column on the writing life, "The Last Word." I invite Goodreads members to check it out.


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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,916 ratings · 526 reviews · 8 distinct works
One Good Dog
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,513 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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Beauty
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The Fortune Teller's Daughter
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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Hawke's Cove
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Summer Harbor
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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Cameo Lake
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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The Dog Who Danced by Susan Wilson
" I usually cry when reading a book about a dog. This time, tears were cascading down my face. Those were tears of happiness instead of sorrow. I don’t know how Susan Wilson did it, but she created the perfect ending!

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Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver
read in January, 2012
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What can I say? This is Barbara Kingsolver after all and there isn't a bad book in her canon.
If you like stories that explore love, loss, and trying to figure it all out, this is the book for tou. Packed within the three separate but tied together...more
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Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Nightwoods
by Charles Frazier
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Charles Frazier has hit another one out of the ballpark. Anyone who loved Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons will fall in love with this one. Set in post-war Appalachia and peopled with remarkably complex, yet fully believable, characters, the twists...more
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Elizabeth I by Margaret George
Elizabeth I
by Margaret George
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Eh. It was okay, but not the tour de force of her magnificent Autobiography of Henry VIII. Could have been shorter, with less filling in with weather reports. Found myself plugging away. And, in the end, she dies.
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Mothers and Other Liars by Amy Bourret
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Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg
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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
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Although it took me a little while to get past the rather stilted prose, an effect of the period in which this book was supposed to have been written, this entertaining mock-autobiography quickly takes in the reader. Lavinia, "Vinnie" Warren Bump Str...more
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