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Sue Barton and Me

28 June 202128 September 2005

Katherine’s prize-winning essay, “Sue Barton and Me,” about re-reading the nurse books she loved as a child, appeared in the anthology Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2005.

About the Author

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Katherine Ashenburg is the prize-winning author of two novels, four non-fiction books, and hundreds of articles on subjects that range from travel to mourning customs to architecture. She describes herself as a lapsed Dickensian and as someone who has had a different career every decade. Continue reading...

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