Curtis Sittenfeld

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born

January 01, 1975 in The United States

gender

female

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http://www.curtissittenfeld.com/

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Literature & Fiction

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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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Books by Curtis Sittenfeld

Average rating: 3.40 · 52,568 ratings · 7,621 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Prep 3.29 avg rating — 28,042 ratings — published 2005 — 32 editions	My rating:
	American Wife 3.64 avg rating — 19,672 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Man of My Dreams 3.12 avg rating — 4,814 ratings — published 2006 — 22 editions	My rating:
	A Regular Couple 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

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“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

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“There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

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