Libby Cone

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation writer, editor, knitter, retired radiologist
Location Philadelphia, PA, United States
Introduction I began writing ten years ago when I was pursuing my MA, a midlife-crisis sort of thing. I wound up self-publishing my thesis as a novel, War on the Margins.It is now published in the UK and US by Duckworth. I am now self-publishing book #2, Flesh and Grass.
Interests literary fiction, writing historical fiction, knitting, cats, Japan
Favorite Movies Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Throne of Blood, Brokeback Mountain
Favorite Music Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Ellington, Brubeck, Uri Caine, Pink Martini
Favorite Books anything by Mark Helprin, Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, 2666 by Roberto Bolano, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

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