Samantha Hunt

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Pound Ridge, New York, The United States

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Samantha Hunt was born in 1971 in Pound Ridge, New York, the youngest of six siblings. She was raised in a house built in 1765 which wasn't haunted in the traditional sense but was so overstuffed with books— good and bad ones— that it had the effect of haunting Hunt all the same. Her mother is a painter and her father was an editor. In 1989 Hunt moved to Vermont where she studied literature, printmaking, and geology. She got her MFA from Warren Wilson College and then, in 1999, moved to New York City. While working on her writing, she held a number of odd jobs including a stint in an envelope factory.

Samantha Hunt received a National Book Foundation award for authors under 35, for her novel, The Seas. The Invention of Everything Else was sh...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 1,643 ratings · 385 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Invention of Everything Else 3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 1,107 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seas 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tesla'nın Kutusu 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yellow 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trampoline: An Anthology by Kelly Link (Editor), Karen Joy Fowler (Contributor), Carol Emshwiller (Contributor) 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla, Samantha Hunt (Introduction) 3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Re:Telling by William Walsh (Editor), Michael Martone, Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author) 4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla, Samantha Hunt (Introduction) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else

tags: memory, time-travel

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“Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else

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“I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else

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