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Robin Hemley

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Robin Hemley has published seven books of nonfiction and fiction. His latest book, Invented Eden, The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday deals with a purported anthropological hoax in the Philippines. James Hamilton Paterson, writing in the London Review of Books, call Invented Eden, "brave and wholly convincing." John Leonard writes in Harpers, "Besides a terrific story, Invented Eden is a savvy caution." Invented Eden was an American Library Association's Editor's Choice book for 2003.

Robin Hemley co-edited the anthology Extreme Fiction:Fabulists and formalists with Michael Martone, and is the author of the memoir, Nola: A Memoir Of Faith, Art And Madness, which won an Independent Press Book Award for Nonfiction. His popular craft b...more

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Books by Robin Hemley

Average rating: 3.56 · 329 ratings · 85 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments 3.24 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Turning Life into Fiction 3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists by Robin Hemley, Michael Martone 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Last Studebaker 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Big Ear: Stories 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	All You Can Eat: Stories 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating: