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Aurelie Thiele

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I write historical fiction about power, politics and art with strong female leading roles.

Some authors I like include Ha Jin, Czeslaw Milosz, Dinaw Mengestu, Lynne Olson, Claire Messud, Jennifer Haigh, Julie Orringer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I live in Dallas, TX.

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A few days ago, I got an email from Typepad announcing they’d be shutting down their blogging service on September 30, and letting me know I should export all my content before then if I wanted to keep anything. It came as a surprise, but after the first few seconds of surprise, it had that feeling of truth that, combined with the surprise, comes with any good plot twist in a book.

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Letters from a Stoic

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Butcher’s Crossing

by John Williams

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