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Julia Claiborne Johnson

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in Heidelberg, Germany

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Historical Fiction

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Julia Claiborne Johnson is the author of the bestselling Be Frank with Me, a finalist for the American Bookseller’s Association Best Debut Novel Award. She grew up on a farm in Tennessee before moving to New York City, where she worked at Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines. She now lives in Los Angeles with her comedy-writer husband and their two children.

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	Be Frank With Me 3.89 avg rating — 23,801 ratings — published 2016 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Luck Next Time 3.59 avg rating — 6,761 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The United States of America is an awfully big place. Sensibly, we chopped it into states a long time ago. This simplifies...

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Quotes by Julia Claiborne Johnson (?)

“Youth isn't wasted on the young, literature is.”
― Julia Claiborne Johnson, Be Frank With Me

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“What I love about you, Alice,” Mr. Vargas said, “is the way you simultaneously give yourself too much credit for everything that happens and not enough. Listening to you makes me feel young again.”
― Julia Claiborne Johnson, Be Frank With Me

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“If you think you'll always let people down, that's all you'll ever do, I said.”
― Julia Claiborne Johnson, Be Frank With Me

tags: self-fulfilling-prophecy

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