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Carolyn Chute

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born

June 14, 1947 in Portland, Maine, The United States

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Politics

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Chute's first, and best known, novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, was published in 1985 and made into a 1994 film of the same name, directed by Jennifer Warren. Chute's next two books, Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (1988) and Merry Men (1994), are also set in the town of Egypt, Maine.

Chute also speaks out publicly about class issues in America and publishes "The Fringe," a monthly collection of in-depth political journalism, short stories, and intellectual commentary on current events. She once ran a satiric campaign for governor of Maine.

Her job career has included waitress, chicken factory worker, hospital floor scrubber, shoe factory worker, potato farm worker, tutor, canvasser, teacher, social worker, and school bus driver, 1970s-1980s; p...more

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Books by Carolyn Chute

Average rating: 3.53 · 2,033 ratings · 291 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Beans of Egypt, Maine 3.51 avg rating — 1,192 ratings — published 1985 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Letourneau's Used Auto Parts 3.47 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The School on Heart's Content Road 3.03 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Merry Men 3.90 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Snow Man by Carolyn Chute, Chute 2.90 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Maclab for Psych V3.0 - Disks - Single 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Maclab for Psy V3.0 - Disks - Site 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Maclab for Psych 3.0 - Documentation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship by Bark Editors, Claudia Kawczynska (Editor), Alice Walker (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from ''The New York Times'' by John Darnton (Editor), Diane Johnson (Contributor), Kurt Vonnegut (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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Egypt, Maine (3 books)
by Carolyn Chute

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Quotes by Carolyn Chute

“I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.”
― Carolyn Chute

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