Elizabeth Berg






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


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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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avg rating: 3.62 | 26,877 ratings | 3,763 reviews | 29 distinct works | 108 fans
Open House: A Novel Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.45 — 3,928 ratings — published 2000
23 editions
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The Year of Pleasures: A Novel The Year of Pleasures: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.62 — 2,193 ratings — published 2005
10 editions
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Talk Before Sleep: A Novel Talk Before Sleep: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.91 — 1,778 ratings — published 1994
18 editions
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The Art of Mending The Art of Mending
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.55 — 1,823 ratings — published 2004
15 editions
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What We Keep What We Keep
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.73 — 1,597 ratings — published 1998
9 editions
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Dream When You're Feeling Blue... Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.39 — 1,681 ratings — published 2007
6 editions
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We Are All Welcome Here We Are All Welcome Here
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.72 — 1,389 ratings — published 2006
13 editions
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Durable Goods Durable Goods
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.76 — 1,308 ratings — published 2000
11 editions
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The Pull of the Moon The Pull of the Moon
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.77 — 1,141 ratings — published 1996
10 editions
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Joy School Joy School
by Elizabeth Berg
avg rating 3.73 — 1,151 ratings — published 1997
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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"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."
Elizabeth Berg
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"...I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to."
Elizabeth Berg (Talk Before Sleep: A Novel)
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