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Karen Russell
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born
July 10, 1981
in Miami, The United States
gender
female
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influences
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September 2011
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Swamplandia!
   3.18 avg rating — 10,111 ratings
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2011
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16 editions
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
 3.77 avg rating — 2,742 ratings
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published
2006
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9 editions
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
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expected publication
2012
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection
by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) , Gavin J. Grant (Goodreads Author) , Kelly Link 3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings
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2008
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The Best American Short Stories 2007
by Stephen King , Heidi Pitlor , Beverly Jensen 3.63 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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2007
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4 editions
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Vampires: The Recent Undead
by Paula Guran , Charlaine Harris, Karen Russell (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 163 ratings
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2011
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Shadow Selves
by Bradford Morrow , Jonathan Carroll, Karen Russell (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2010
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PEN America 14: The Good Books
by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Saul Bellow, Amitava Kumar 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2011
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Unsaid
by Anthony Tedesco , Karen Russell (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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2011
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"A young alligator wrestler tries to save her family's Everglades theme park in Swamplandia!, a fantastical debut novel from a writer of whimsical short stories." ...More
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“My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.”
― Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
― Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn’t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library’s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light…”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
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| SciFi and Fantasy...: What I'm Also Reading in January 2009 | 58 | 430 | Jan 31, 2009 12:54pm | |
| YA Book Council: Notepad for Unofficial Books | 2 | 42 | Aug 15, 2009 09:04pm | |
| "The BB's": The New Yorker 20 Best Writers Under 40 (UPDATED w/ Britain's List) | 20 | 16 | Aug 17, 2010 04:14pm | |
| Beyond Reality: Forthcoming books for February 2011 | 15 | 52 | Feb 21, 2011 12:21pm | |
| The Seasonal Read...: Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS) | 2898 | 730 | May 31, 2011 09:01pm | |
| Bookish: Fiction 2010 - 20 Writers Under 40 To Watch | 16 | 89 | Jun 15, 2011 01:20pm | |
| Long Distance Boo...: Swamplandia! | 6 | 1 | Aug 16, 2011 04:41am | |
| The Book Addicts!: 20 Under 40 | 12 | 285 | Sep 11, 2011 03:13pm |
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