Elizabeth McCracken

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January 01, 1966 in The United States

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Literature & Fiction

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Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author. She is married to the novelist Edward Carey, with whom she has two children - August George Carey Harvey and Matilda Libby Mary Harvey. An earlier child died before birth, an experience which formed the basis for McCracken's memoir, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination.

McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, and holds a degree in library science from Simmons College, a women's college in Boston. McCracken currently lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she is an artist-in-residence at Skidmore College. She is the sister of PC World magazine editor-in-chief Ha...more

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Books by Elizabeth McCracken

Average rating: 3.83 · 5,693 ratings · 1,124 reviews · 15 distinct works

	The Giant's House 3.67 avg rating — 2,508 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	My rating:
	An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination 4.07 avg rating — 1,909 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Niagara Falls All Over Again 3.64 avg rating — 527 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry 3.93 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The American Child 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Home Progress 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	To Mother: An Anthology of Mother Verse 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Women of America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Feminine In Fiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Lost Child 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House

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“but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House: A Romance

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“truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House: A Romance

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