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Catherynne M. Valente
| url |
http://www.goodreads.com/catvalente
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| born |
May 05, 1979
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| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
Seattle, WA, The United States |
| website |
http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/ |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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| influences |
from Valente(with permission to copy here)
>Do you explicitly acknowledge in your book that "In the Night Garden"
>is influenced by "Thousand And One Night" ?
The structure is inspired by AN, but it is not, in fact, the same structure. The stories in 1001 do not come together to create one big narrative--OT is building on that structure, not copying it. The stories, beyond naming a character Dinarzad in order to tip my hat to AN, are not inspired by that work. |
about this author
Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan.
She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.
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