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Jane Hamilton is an American novelist who was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1957. She graduated from Carleton College in 1979 and began her writing career by publishing short stories in The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, was published in 1988 and won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. She has since published six more novels, including A Map of the World, The Short History of a Prince, and Disobedience. Hamilton's novels are known for their lyrical prose and their sensitive portrayals of family life. She lives in Rochester, Wisconsin, with her husband and two children.

Here are some additional details about Hamilton's life and work:

* She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
* Her novels have been translated into more than 20 languages.
* She has taught creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Minnesota.
* She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

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