Elizabeth McCracken

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born

January 01, 1966

gender

female

place of birth

United States

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Literature & Fiction

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Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author.

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 married to the novelist Edward Carey, and is the sister of PC World magazine editor-in-chief Harry McCracken.

books by Elizabeth McCracken

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avg rating: 3.72 | 983 ratings | 12 distinct works

	Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry: Stories (Paperback) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 3.98 — 117 ratings — published 1997 4 editions	my rating:
	The Giant's House: A Romance (Paperback) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 3.55 — 44 ratings — published 2007 6 editions	my rating:
	Niagara Falls All Over Again (Paperback) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 3.56 — 18 ratings — published 2003 7 editions	my rating:
	An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	The feminine in fiction (Unknown Binding) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1977	my rating:
	Nur ein Lachen. (Paperback) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2003	my rating:
	To Mother (Hardcover) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1976	my rating:
	Unter Engeln, unbemerkt. (Broschiert) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1995	my rating:
	Den Kopf in den Wolken. (Broschiert) by Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth MacCracken avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2001	my rating:
	The American Child (Paperback) by Elizabeth McCracken avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2006 6 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

"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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"For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It's what's cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it's stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can't purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won't believe it ever happened."
— Elizabeth McCracken

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