Curtis Sittenfeld
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January 01, 1975
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female
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The United States
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Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the bestselling novels American Wife, Prep, and The Man of My Dreams, which are being translated into twenty-five languages. Prep also was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, nominated for the UK's Orange Prize, and optioned by Paramount Pictures. Curtis won the Seventeen magazine fiction writing contest in 1992, at age sixteen, and since then her writing has appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Salon, Glamour, and on public radio's This American Life. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she was the 2002 - 2003 writer in residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.
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Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld avg rating 3.29 — 13,741 ratings — published 2005 21 editions |
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American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld avg rating 3.66 — 7,246 ratings — published 2008 10 editions |
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The Man of My Dreams: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld avg rating 3.11 — 2,262 ratings — published 2006 16 editions |
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Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005 |
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American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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Eine Klasse für sich by Curtis Sittenfeld, Verena von Koskull avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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Die Frau des Präsidenten by Curtis Sittenfeld, Gesine Schröder , Carina Tessari avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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"I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely."
— Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep)
— Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep)
"The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed."
— Curtis Sittenfeld
— Curtis Sittenfeld
"'The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen."
— Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep: A Novel)
— Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep: A Novel)
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