What American novelist and young-adult and children's writer mentioned Middleborough in her short story "Saint Helene"?
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Middleborough High School Middleborough High School is a public high school located in Middleborough, Massachusetts, established in 1873. The school is currently located at 71 East Grove Street. Middleborough High has an approximate student enrollment of 850 students in grades 9–12. The school's mascot is known as the "Sachem" and the school colors are black and orange. Middleborough is mentioned in Alice Hoffman's short story "Saint Helene."
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Alice Hoffman Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel "Practical Magic", which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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Aurelie Sheehan Aurelie Sheehan is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels, "History Lesson for Girls" and "The Anxiety of Everyday Objects", as well as a collection of stories, "Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant." She is an associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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Helen Simpson (author) Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1957 in Bristol, in the West of England, and grew up first in Wealdstone then in a suburb of Croydon where she went to a girls' school. Her mother was a primary-school teacher and her father was a naval architect who later taught. The first from her family to go to university, she read English at Oxford where she wrote a thesis on Restoration farce. She worked at "Vogue" for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, "Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories", 1990, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was followed by a second collection, "Dear George", in 1995. "Hey Yeah Right Get A Life", 2000, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize, and was renamed "Getting a Life" for its US publication. She was awarded the E.M. Forster Award in 2002 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent story collections are: "Constitutional" (2005), renamed "In the Driver's Seat" for its US publication; "In-Flight Entertainment" (2010); and "Cockfosters" (2015). "A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories" was published in 2012.
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Claire Messud Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel "The Emperor's Children" (2006).
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David Crouse David Crouse (born 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a short story writer and teacher. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was awarded to him in 2005 for his first collection of short stories, "Copy Cats". Published in 2008, his most recent collection of stories, "The Man Back There", was awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize.
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John Cheever John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote four novels, comprising "The Wapshot Chronicle" (National Book Award, 1958),
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Sue Alexander Sue Alexander (August 20, 1933 – July 3, 2008) was an American writer of children's literature. She authored 26 books for children as well as "scores of stories" for newspapers and magazines. She was also a children's book reviewer for the "Los Angeles Times". She was a charter member and advisory board member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, which established two awards in her name in recognition of her efforts to educate and mentor aspiring writers.
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Hélène Dorion Hélène Dorion, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 21 April 1958) is a Canadian poet, and writer.
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Anna Matlack Richards Anna Matlack Richards (1834–1900) was an American children's author, poet and translator who is best known for her fantasy novel, "A New Alice in the Old Wonderland".
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Carol Gorman Carol Gorman (born February 16, 1962) is an American writer of children's fiction. She originally aspired to be an actress, and for a few years taught seventh grade at an Iowan middle school. Inspired by her husband and fellow author, Ed Gorman, she began writing in the mid-1980s. With over 22 books published under several names, Carol Gorman continues to write and teach.
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The Great Saint Patrick's Day Flood The Great Saint Patrick's Day Flood is a short historical novel for children by the American writer Mildred S. Flaherty based on events of the Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Main-Travelled Roads Main-Travelled Roads is a collection of short stories by the American author Hamlin Garland. First published in 1891, the stories are set in what the author refers to as the "Middle Border," the northwestern prairie states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. In the book's eleven stories, Garland portrays the hardships of agrarian life, deconstructing the conventional myth of the American prairie while highlighting the economic and social conditions that characterized agricultural communities in the rural Midwest.
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Anne Atkins Anne Atkins (born 1956) is an English broadcaster, journalist and novelist. A regular contributor to the "Today" programme's "Thought for the Day" feature, she is the author of three novels: "The Lost Child", "On Our Own" and "A Fine and Private Place".
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Amanda Minnie Douglas Amanda Minnie Douglas (July 14, 1831 – July 18, 1916) was an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for the "Little Girl" and "Helen Grant" series published over the decades flanking the turn of the twentieth century.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." In 1968 she was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's writers.
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A New England Nun "A New England Nun" is a short story by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman published in 1891.
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Anne Goodwin Winslow Anne Goodwin Winslow (June 14, 1875 – November 25, 1959) was an American novelist and short-story writer who published her first work of prose at the age of 68.
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Ella Rhoads Higginson Ella Rhoads Higginson (c. January 28, 1862 – December 27, 1940) was a prominent American author. She wrote award-winning fiction, poetry, and essays characteristically set in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. She was the author of 2 collections of short stories, 6 books of poetry, a novel, a travel book, over 100 short stories, over 300 poems, and numerous newspaper essays. She was influential for the ways her writing drew international attention to the then little-known Pacific Northwest region of the United States (Baym, 2011: 284; Blair, 1997: 52).
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Patrice Lawrence Patrice Lawrence is a British writer and journalist, who has published fiction both for adults and children. Her writing has won awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children and "The Bookseller" YA Book Prize.
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Anita Shreve Anita Shreve (born 1946) is an American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School in Massachusetts, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher in Reading, Massachusetts. One of her first published stories, "Past the Island, Drifting", (published in 1975) was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.
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Nancy Mitford Nancy Freeman-Mitford {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright Young People" on the London social scene in the inter-war years, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.