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Jeannette Batz Cooperman

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in St. Louis, The United States

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Mystery, Psychology, Crime

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Tried to teach our dachsund to read when I was four. Got yelled at by my grandmother to "Go outside in the sunshine and stop reading!" Happiest summer was age 12—mornings at the pool, baloney sandwich and a frozen baby Coke for lunch, Agatha Christie and a nap in the afternoon. Tried the corporate world and went back for a Ph.D. so I could read some more. Went into journalism so I could write, too. Married a man who owned even more books than I did. Now I'm learning to write mysteries as a hobby that can carry me to the grave. Hopefully a natural death. ...more

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	A Circumstance of Blood 3.89 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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 Broom Closet: Secret Meanings of Domesticity in Postfeminist Novels by Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, and Amy Tan 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1999	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
	TheSt. Louis Woman's Exchange: 130 Years of the Gentle Art of Survival really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 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
	The St. Louis Woman's Exchange: 130 Years of the Gentle Art of Survival 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Half Life: What We Give Up to Work 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	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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“They never opened the door which leads to the soul.”
― Henry Miller

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“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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― Gore Vidal

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“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
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