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  <name><![CDATA[Glenda Burgess]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">5</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">5</followers-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;&quot;Burgess' tender recollections...remind us all that we tend to be defined by our great loves well after we've lived them.&quot; - &lt;i&gt;Elle Magazine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;b&gt; &quot;I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir, THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, in one sitting-- in one breath -- and all I had ever felt about love's ability to vanquish everything, to swallow heartbreak, to correct history, Burgess makes us believe.  And in a fashion that reads like a classic novel.&quot;	- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of &lt;I&gt; The Deep End of the Ocean &lt;/I&gt; &lt;/b&gt;

Glenda Burgess is a winner of &lt;b&gt;The Rupert Hughes Fiction Award&lt;/b&gt;, and a short story finalist for the &lt;b&gt;New Century Writer Award&lt;/b&gt;. She has published two novels and most recently a memoir, &lt;b&gt;The Geography of Love,&lt;/b&gt; Broadway Books 2008, named one of the &lt;b&gt;Top Ten Books of 2008&lt;/b&gt; by the &lt;i&gt;Seattle Post-Intelligencer &lt;/i&gt;and a finalist for the &lt;b&gt;Books for a Better Life Award.&lt;/b&gt;  

Glenda Burgess has been the featured guest faculty at fiction and memoir workshops at writers conferences. She is a member of The Authors Guild, New York and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. 


]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Literary influences include 19th and 20th c. literary novels of character and landscape by authors such as Lawrence Durrell, Duras, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, Bowles, Virginia Woolf, John Gardner and Isak Dinesen.  Poets such as Louise Gluck, Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Levertov, Katrina Roberts, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Robert Haas, Campbell McGrath and Anne Carson for their gifts of imagery and distillation and cadence of language.]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Geography of Love: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.59</average_rating>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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        <book id="380712">
  <title><![CDATA[Loose Threads]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Glenda Burgess]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.80</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <published>1998</published>  
  
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        <book id="1877557">
  <title><![CDATA[Exposures]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Glenda Burgess]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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