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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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897. Margot Livesey

897. Margot Livesey

2024-02-07
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Margot Livesey is the author of the novel The Road from Belhaven, available from Knopf. Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of a collection of stories and nine other novels,...

Margot Livesey is the author of the novel The Road from Belhaven, available from Knopf.

Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of a collection of stories and nine other novels, including Eva Moves the Furniture, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and The Boy in the Field. She has received awards from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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