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Ariel Leve


Born
in New York, The United States
January 24, 1968

Genre
Memoir, Nonfiction


Ariel Leve is an author and award-winning journalist. Born in New York City, Ariel grew up with her mother, a poet, in Manhattan. At the age of five, she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father, a lawyer.

She was a columnist for The Guardian and subsequently for the Sunday Times Magazine. Her memoir An Abbreviated Life was published by HarperCollins in 2016.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 2,575 ratings · 371 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir
3.93 avg rating — 2,042 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions
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It Could Be Worse, You Coul...
3.37 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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the Cassandra Chronicles
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“Complaining is a lot like talking, only more constructive.”
― Ariel Leve, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me
tags: humor
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“For Liza, a greeting is an opportunity to make new friends. For me, it's yet more people I'll have to avoid.”
― Ariel Leve, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me
tags: humor, people
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“The only thing that's worse than people who say "I am what I am" is people who say "I yam what I yam" while doing a Popeye imitation.”
― Ariel Leve, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me
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