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in Baltimore, The United States
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influences
E.M. Forster, Barbara Kingsolver, Walt Whitman, Ann Patchett

member since
September 2011


About this author

Marisa de los Santos was a poet for a very long time, with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Her first book, FROM THE BONES OUT, a collection of poems, was published in 2000.

She and her husband, writer David Teague, lived in Center City, Philadelphia for a number of years before moving to Wilmington, Delaware in spring of 2003. That summer, Marisa began writing what would become her first novel LOVE WALKED IN (Dutton, 2006). LOVE WALKED IN was translated into fourteen languages, was optioned by Paramount pictures, and was a trade paperback bestseller. William Morrow published her second novel BELONG TO ME in April 2008, and it was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 40,069 ratings · 6,987 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
Love Walked In
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 19,966 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions
Belong to Me
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 15,358 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions
Falling Together
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 4,715 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
From the Bones Out
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
Falling Together
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Samo tvoja
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007
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May 2008, Marisa de los Santos
"I began writing poetry because I love the texture of words: the sound, the rhythm, the way they feel in my mouth and the back of my throat. And I consider all of those things when I write novels. If a paragraph feels off to me, the first thing I look at is rhythm..." ...More

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“It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.”
Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me

“No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.”
Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.”
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