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Celeste De Blasis

Born

in Santa Monica, CA, The United States

May 08, 1946

Died

April 13, 2001

Genre

Romance, Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

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Celeste N. De Blasis was a successful American writer of historical-romance novels. She grew up on the Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California, in the high Mojave Desert. She attended Wellesley College, later transferred to Oregon State University, and in 1968 graduated from Pomona College, near her home. She continued to live on the ranch until her death.

In 1969 De Blasis received the Southern Division National League of Pen Women Award for Letters, for her poetry. In 1975 her first novel "The Night Child" was published, followed the next year by "Suffer A Sea Change" and in 1978 by "The Proud Breed" which became a Doubleday Book Club selection. Her most ambitious and successful work is the "Wild Swan" triliogy (1984-1 ...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 3,672 ratings · 263 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wild Swan (Wild Swan Trilogy, #1) 4.36 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 1984 — 9 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
	The Proud Breed 4.31 avg rating — 932 ratings — published 1978 — 11 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
	Swan's Chance (Wild Swan Trilogy, #2) 4.37 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 1985 — 7 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
	A Season of Swans (Wild Swan Trilogy, #3) 4.31 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1989 — 4 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
	The Tiger's Woman 4.28 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 1981 — 6 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
	The Night Child 3.82 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1975 — 9 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
	Suffer a Sea Change 3.90 avg rating — 96 ratings — 4 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
	Graveyard Peaches: A California Memoir 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1991	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
	Tiger's Woman (Mayflower Books) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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 Wild Swan Trilogy (3 books)
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Quotes by Celeste De Blasis

“I am sorry because there will never be enough time, not even in a hundred years from this day would be enough time for us to love”
― Celeste De Blasis, The Proud Breed

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“You did not seduce me. I came to you. If you cannot accept my strengths as well as my weaknesses, if you cannot take from me as well as give to me, you cannot love me.”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

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“...tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside.”
― Celeste De Blasis, The Tiger's Woman

tags: growing, rain, tears

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