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In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Happy birthday, Edna O'Brien! The Irish PEN Award recipient didn't know what kind of books she would write—if any—until she stumbled across A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and realized it was autobiographical. Inspired, she started writing what would become her award-winning debut book, The Country Girls.
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