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  <name><![CDATA[Erik Larson]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Erik Larson, author of the international bestseller [book: Isaac's Storm], was nominated for a National Book Award for [book: The Devil in the White City]. He is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine, where he is still a contributing writer. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.

Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, a dwarf hamster, a Chinese fighting fish, and a golden retriever named Molly. ]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Brooklyn, New York</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1954</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Miraculous Milk Cow: More Tales My Great Great Grandfather Might Tell About Life in a Ghetto of Russia in the Time of the Czars]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Project Management: The Managerial Process (Irwin/Mcgraw Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences.)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Bear and the Baby: Still More Tales My Great-Great-Grandfather Might Tell About Life in a Ghetto of Russia in the Time of the Czars]]></title>
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