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Michael R. French

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#1 Amazon best selling author Michael French graduated from Stanford University and Northwestern University. He is a businessman and author who divides his time between Santa Barbara, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is an avid high-altitude mountain trekker, as well as a collector of first editions of twentieth-century fiction.

He has published twenty-four books, including fiction, young adult fiction, biographies, and art criticism. His novel, Abingdon’s, was a bestseller and a Literary Guild Alternate Selection. His young adult novel, Pursuit, was awarded the California Young Reader Medal.

The Reconstruction of Wilson Ryder was published January 2013.

Mountains Beyond Mountains was published April 2013.

Once Upon a Lie was published
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​I sat at a typewriter behind a closed bedroom door for a lot of my adolescence.  I can’t even remember what I wrote—probably some poetry and fantasies—but I do remember why.  I wanted to create a world that I controlled and that made me feel good. I  became amazed and confused by the weird person coming to life on the written page. I worried what would my parents think. In reality,  I was so ordi Read more of this blog post »
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“Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.”
Michael R French, Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand

“A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.”
Michael R French, Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand

“When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.”
Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

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“Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.”
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“When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.”
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“Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.”
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“In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.”
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“If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life.”
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