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Sheila Kohler

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Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the younger of two girls. Upon matriculation at 17 from Saint Andrews, with a distinction in history (1958), she left the country for Europe. She lived for 15 years in Paris, where she married, did her undergraduate degree in literature at the Sorbonne, and a graduate degree in psychology at the Institut Catholique. After raising her three girls, she moved to the USA in 1981, and did an MFA in writing at Columbia.

In the summer of 1987, her first published story, “The Mountain,” came out in “The Quarterly” and received an O’Henry prize and was published in the O’Henry Prize Stories of 1988. It also became the first chapter in her first novel, "The Perfect Place," which was published by K ...more

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Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
3.47 avg rating — 2,901 ratings — published 2017
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Becoming Jane Eyre
3.32 avg rating — 2,267 ratings — published 2009 — 24 editions
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Cracks
3.37 avg rating — 993 ratings — published 1999 — 26 editions
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Love Child
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The Bay of Foxes
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Dreaming for Freud
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Open Secrets: A Novel
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“If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you.”
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“It's stupid to ban books that tell you the truth about life.”
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“It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.”
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“It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.”
― Sheila Kohler, Becoming Jane Eyre
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“It's stupid to ban books that tell you the truth about life.”
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“If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you.”
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