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  <name><![CDATA[Hope Edelman]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Hope Edelman is the internationally acclaimed author of five nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers, as well as the upcoming memoir, The Possibility of Everything. She has lectured extensively on the subjects of early mother loss and nonfiction writing in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Glamour, Child, Seventeen, Real Simple, Parents, Writer’s Digest, and Self, and her original essays have appeared in many anthologies, including The Bitch in the House (2002), Toddler (2003), Blindsided by a Diaper (2007), and Behind the Bedroom Door (2008). Her work has received a New York Times notable book of the year designation and a Pushcart Prize for creative nonfiction. She can be found in Iowa City every July teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. The rest of the year, she lives in Topanga Canyon, California, with her husband and their two daughters.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Growing up suburban; losing a mother to cancer at 17; a grandmother who loved to tell stories; a first-grade teacher who told me I should write; Bruce Springsteen’s music; graduate school in Iowa City; organic coffee in the morning; the six inimitable women in my writing group; being a New Yorker in California; being a New Yorker anywhere; two daughters who often make me laugh so hard I cry.]]></influences>      <born_at>06/17/1964</born_at>    
  
  
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