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Amanda Eyre Ward was born in New York City in 1972. Her family moved to Rye, New York when she was four. Amanda attended Kent School in Kent, CT, where she wrote for the Kent News.

Amanda majored in English and American Studies at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She studied fiction writing with Jim Shepard and spent her junior fall in coastal Kenya. She worked part-time at the Williamstown Public Library. After graduation, Amanda taught at Athens College in Greece for a year, and then moved to Missoula, Montana.

Amanda studied fiction writing at the University of Montana with Bill Kittredge, Dierdre McNamer, Debra Earling, and Kevin Canty, receiving her MFA. After traveling to Egypt, she took a job at the University of Montan...more


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Average rating: 3.50 · 5,836 ratings · 1,007 reviews · 9 distinct works
How to Be Lost
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Sleep Toward Heaven
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Close Your Eyes
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Forgive Me
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Love Stories in This Town
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Karen No Nemuru Hi
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Les Amours De Lola: Nouvelles
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“When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.”
Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost

“Is reading a sport?”
Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost

“she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor. ”
Amanda Eyre Ward, Love Stories in This Town

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