Marie Arana





Marie Arana

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born
September 15, 1949 in Lima, Peru

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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.


Average rating: 3.37 · 714 ratings · 150 reviews · 8 distinct works
Cellophane
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
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American Chica: Two Worlds,...
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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Lima Nights
3.02 of 5 stars 3.02 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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The Writing Life: Writers o...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2007
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Stone Offerings: Machu Picc...
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009
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Through The Eyes Of The Con...
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Layered Urbanisms
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“Life is better when we imagine it”
Marie Arana

“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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