Elizabeth Berg
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born
December 02, 1948
gender
female
place of birth
St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
about this author
Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including We Are All Welcome Here, The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY Award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Elizabeth Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.
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Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.46 — 3,309 ratings — published 2000 22 editions |
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The Year of Pleasures: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.63 — 1,841 ratings — published 2005 10 editions |
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Talk Before Sleep: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.92 — 1,523 ratings — published 1994 18 editions |
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The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.55 — 1,534 ratings — published 2004 15 editions |
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What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.75 — 1,343 ratings — published 1998 9 editions |
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Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.37 — 1,423 ratings — published 2007 6 editions |
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We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.73 — 1,142 ratings — published 2006 11 editions |
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Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.76 — 1,104 ratings — published 2000 11 editions |
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Joy School by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.74 — 972 ratings — published 1997 10 editions |
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The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg avg rating 3.81 — 930 ratings — published 1996 10 editions |
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""There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.
-The Art of Mending"
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— Elizabeth Berg
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-The Art of Mending"
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— Elizabeth Berg
"You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart."
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"You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges."
— Elizabeth Berg (The Art of Mending)
10 editions— Elizabeth Berg (The Art of Mending)
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