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Louise Murphy

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January 01, 1943 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Born in 1943 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Louise Murphy began writing stories when she was five years old. An avid reader and prolific writer, she attended the University of Kentucky and taught English to middle-school students in Newark, Delaware, before moving to California in 1968. There, she raised her two children and received a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where she taught for five years. She later taught novel writing at Acalanes Adult Education in Lafayette, California.

Murphy is the winner of a Writer’s Digest award for formal poetry. In 2003, she was awarded the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award for her chapbook, Pilgrimage. Her writing and poetry has been published in numerous journal...more

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Books by Louise Murphy

Average rating: 3.99 · 3,224 ratings · 709 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The True Story of Hansel and Gretel 3.99 avg rating — 3,221 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Sea Within 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Making Hats 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	My Garden: A Journal for Gardening Around the Year 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1983	My rating:

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“Do not struggle when the hook of a word pulls you into the air of truth and you cannot breathe.”
― Louise Murphy, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

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“There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the camps fall back to the earth and decay, and we are done killing each other, that is what we must hold. We can never let the world take our memories of love away, and if there are no memories, we must invent love all over again.”
― Louise Murphy

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