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Samantha Hunt


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Pound Ridge, New York, The United States
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Samantha Hunt was born in 1971 in Pound Ridge, New York, the youngest of six siblings. She was raised in a house built in 1765 which wasn't haunted in the traditional sense but was so overstuffed with books— good and bad ones— that it had the effect of haunting Hunt all the same. Her mother is a painter and her father was an editor. In 1989 Hunt moved to Vermont where she studied literature, printmaking, and geology. She got her MFA from Warren Wilson College and then, in 1999, moved to New York City. While working on her writing, she held a number of odd jobs including a stint in an envelope factory.

Samantha Hunt received a National Book Foundation award for authors under 35, for her novel, The Seas. The Invention of Everything Else was sh ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 28,434 ratings · 4,571 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
The Seas
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Mr. Splitfoot
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The Dark Dark
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The Unwritten Book: An Inve...
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Three Days
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Go, Team
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The Yellow
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“If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don't see why I can't.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Seas
tags: identity, words-have-power
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“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else
tags: memory, time-travel
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“You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea.”
― Samantha Hunt, The Seas
tags: love
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