Where is the author who wrote the 2016 novel about members of a cult that resembles the Manson Family from?
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The Girls (Cline novel) The Girls is a 2016 debut novel by American author Emma Cline. It concerns the members of a cult that resembles the Manson Family.
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Emma Cline Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist, originally from California. She published her first novel, "The Girls", in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her stories have been published in "The New Yorker", "Tin House", "Granta" and "The Paris Review". In 2017 Cline was named one of "Granta's" Best Young American Novelists.
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Matt Lennox Matt Lennox (born 1980 in Orillia, Ontario) is a Canadian fiction writer, whose 2015 novel "Knucklehead" was a longlisted contender for the 2017 edition of "Canada Reads".
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Barkskins Barkskins is a 2016 novel by American writer Annie Proulx. It tells the story of two immigrants to New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, and of their descendants. It spans over 300 years and witnesses the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era of global warming.
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Dan Brown Daniel Gerhard "Dan" Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, most notably the novels "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013). Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013), have been adapted into films.
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Timothy Hallinan Timothy Hallinan (born 1949) is an American thriller writer, based in Southern California and Southeast Asia. In the 1990s, Hallinan created the erudite private eye Simeon Grist, who appeared in a total of six novels, all set in Los Angeles. The series was widely and well reviewed, with some titles appearing on critics "Ten Best" lists for the year in which they appeared, such as that of the Drood Review of Mystery, but did not achieve widespread popularity. Hallinan returned to publication in 2007 with a second series, set in Bangkok, where he has lived off and on since the early 1980s. The new series features a rough-travel writer named Philip ("Poke") Rafferty, who has settled in the Thai capital and is in the process of trying to cobble together a family comprising Rose, the former go-go dancer he loves, and a precocious street urchin named Miaow. The first book in the series is "A Nail Through the Heart" (William Morrow). In 2011 he launched a third series starring Junior Bender, private detective to Los Angeles' underworld elite.
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The Cult (novel) The Cult is a fiction book by Max Simon Ehrlich published in 1979 by Mayflower and was the tenth book by the author.
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Michelle Hodkin Michelle Hodkin (born May 31, 1982) is an American New York Times bestselling author, and the creator of the "Mara Dyer Trilogy", consisting of "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer", "The Evolution of Mara Dyer", and "The Retribution of Mara Dyer".
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Everything, Everything (novel) Everything, Everything is the debut young adult novel by American author Nicola Yoon, first published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers in 2015. The novel centers around 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, who has severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), also known as "bubble baby disease". Due to her condition, Madeline is stuck inside her house in Los Angeles, where she lives with her mother and a physician who takes care of her.
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Michael Buckley (author) Michael William Buckley (born August 16, 1969) is a best selling children’s book author who is currently writing "The Sisters Grimm" and the "N.E.R.D.S." book series.
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An Na An Na (born 1972) is a South Korea-born American children's book author. Starting her career as a middle school English and History teacher, Na turned to writing novels after taking a young adult literature class while enrolled in an M.F.A. program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She gained success with her very first novel "A Step From Heaven", published by Front Street Press in 2001, which won the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". It was also a finalist for the National Book Award, Young People's Literature, and later found its way onto numerous "best book" lists. Na still makes frequent visits to middle schools to talk about her works and encourages young Asian-American students to become artists and harness their creativity. She cites Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and Sandra Cisneros's "The House on Mango Street" among the influences on her writing and also admires the work of Madeleine L'Engle and of her first writing teacher, Jacqueline Woodson. She divides her time between Oakland, California and Warren, Vermont.
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Chris Culver Chris Culver is the pen name of an American author of crime fiction and thrillers. His books are set in and around the Midwestern United States. He is well known for his works featuring IMPD Detective Ashraf (Ash) Rashid. His debut novel, "The Abbey", was on The New York Times bestseller list for 16 weeks.
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John Fulton (writer) John Fulton (born November 14, 1967) is an American author based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He grew up in Utah and Montana, studied at Whitman College, and lived in Europe for five years. He is a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program. His story collection, "The Animal Girl", was published in 2007 by Louisiana State University Press. He is the author of "Retribution", which won the 2001 Southern Review Short Fiction Award for the best first collection of short stories. His novel, "More Than Enough", was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Midland Society of Authors Award. His work has appeared in "", "Oxford American", and "The Southern Review". His short story “Hunters” won a 2006 Pushcart Prize.
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Linda Nagata Linda Nagata (born November 7, 1960 in San Diego, California) is a Hawaii-based American author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories. Her novella "Goddesses" was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award. She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.
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Joseph Paul Franklin Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn, Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer who gained notoriety for numerous murders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His killing spree was the subject of a fictional novel entitled "Hunter" by White supremacist William L. Pierce, who said of Franklin that “he saw his duty as a white man and did what a responsible son of his race must do.”
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Cameron Pierce Cameron Pierce (born May 23, 1988, Bakersfield, California, United States) is an American author of bizarro fiction currently residing in Portland, Oregon. The "Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple)" described his work as "Surreal nightmares that are funny, sad, sincere, and violent." His work has been praised by Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman, Piers Anthony, "The Guardian", Cracked.com, "Details" Magazine, "New Times", and SF Site. In 2011, his short story collection "Lost in Cat Brain Land" won the Wonderland Book Award for Best Collection of 2010. Pierce is also the editor of Lazy Fascist Press.
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Forest Dark Forest Dark is the fourth novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss. It was published on August 24, 2017 in the United Kingdom and on September 12, 2017 in the United States. The book, which is set in New York City and Israel, is dedicated to Krauss's father. Its chief characters are lawyer Jules Epstein, who is wealthy, divorced and retired, and Nicole, an internationally acclaimed novelist and mother of two sons who is in a failing marriage.
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All Families Are Psychotic All Families Are Psychotic is the seventh novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 2001. The novel is the fictional story of the dysfunctional Drummond family and their adventures on a trip to see their daughter's space shuttle launch.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. In 2016, "The New York Times" described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she has said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
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The Butterfly Clues The Butterfly Clues is a Young adult mystery novel written by Kate Ellison and published in February 2012 by Egmont USA. "The Butterfly Clues" tells the story of Penelope "Lo" Marin, an outcast teenage girl who struggles with Obsessive—compulsive disorder (OCD) and has to deal with the constant urge to steal various items, the frequent relocation due to her father's job, and the memory of her brother Oren's death. Throughout the novel, Lo's problems arise as both weaknesses and strengths, which she is forced to deal with as she attempts to solve the murder of a young stripper.
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Charles Finch Charles Finch (born 1980) is an American author and literary critic, notable for his series of mystery novels set in Victorian era England.
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Keith Donohue (novelist) Keith Donohue (born 1959) is an American novelist. He is the author of five novels: "The Motion of Puppets" (2016), "The Boy Who Drew Monsters" (2014), "Centuries of June" (2011), "Angels of Destruction" (2009), and "The Stolen Child" (2006). His acclaimed 2006 novel "The Stolen Child", about a changeling, was inspired by the Yeats poem of the same name.