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Marie Arana

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born

September 15, 1949 in Lima, Peru

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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She was born in Peru, moved to the United States at the age of 9, did her B.A. in Russian at Northwestern University, her M.A. in linguistics at Hong Kong University, a certificate of scholarship at Yale University in China, and began her career in book publishing, where she was vice president and senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster. For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post. Currently, she is a Writer at Large for The Washington Post. She is married to Jonathan Yardley, the Post's chief book critic, and has two children, Lalo Walsh and Adam Ward.

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Books by Marie Arana

Average rating: 3.37 · 714 ratings · 150 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Cellophane 3.33 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood 3.51 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lima Nights 3.02 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work : A Collection from the Washington Post Book World 3.66 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Off the Page: Writers Talk about Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between by Carole Burns (Editor), Marie Arana (Introduction) 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu's Terraces of Enlightenment by Mike Torrey, Marie Arana (Introduction) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Through The Eyes Of The Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America by Robert B. Haas, Marie Arana (Introduction) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Layered Urbanisms by Nina Rappaport (Editor), Marie Arana (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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Quotes by Marie Arana

“Life is better when we imagine it”
― Marie Arana

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“In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.”
― Marie Arana, Lima Nights

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