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Ward Just

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September 05, 1935 in Michigan City, IN, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Ward Just (born 1935) is an American writer. He is the author of 15 novels and numerous short stories.

Ward Just graduated from Cranbrook School in 1953. He briefly attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He started his career as a print journalist for the Waukegan (Illinois) News-Sun. He was also a correspondent for Newsweek and The Washington Post from 1959 to 1969, after which he left journalism to write fiction.

His influences include Henry James and Ernest Hemingway. His novel An Unfinished Season was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005. His novel Echo House was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been a finalist for the O. Henry Award: in 1985 for his short story About Boston, and ag...more

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Books by Ward Just

Average rating: 3.45 · 1,262 ratings · 230 reviews · 27 distinct works

	An Unfinished Season 3.39 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Forgetfulness 3.40 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Echo House 3.40 avg rating — 139 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Rodin's Debutante 3.14 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Exiles in the Garden 3.50 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Dangerous Friend 3.57 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Weather in Berlin 3.38 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Translator 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Jack Gance 3.58 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The American Ambassador: A Novel 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“You think such an attitude is admirable. Manly, heroic even. 'Lived harmlessly.' 'Kept to himself.' Hide away somewhere and your past will cease to exist. You won't have to account for it. You'll feel no obligation to explain your actions or justify them because you've gone away and you expect your victims to go away too. It's like leaving the scene of an accident . . . Or a marriage. Even a field of battle.”
― Ward Just, Forgetfulness

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“What brings us anywhere? You take one turn instead of another, you meet one woman instead of another, you have good health or you don't, luck vies with misfortune, you break down and arrive at Bellevue in your bathrobe on a Saturday morning or - what was his father's antique phrase - you pulled up your socks and got on with things. Your heart adapted to changing times. Your body did. Or it did not and you passed your days in a muffler of regret. And that was what they called intelligent design.”
― Ward Just, Forgetfulness

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“He explained what he saw in her eyes, which was not sadness or disappointment but understanding. Sympathy, he said, and wit. At some level sympathy implied knowledge and knowledge had a melancholy aspect. He believed that was universally true, no exceptions. When you knew too much you felt a natural distress but that was something quite different from fundamental personal sadness, sadness as a trait, like blue eyes. Her distress was not temperamental but intellectual.”
― Ward Just, Forgetfulness

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