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Lucy Silag

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in Ames, Iowa, The United States

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Lucy Silag is the author of the Beautiful Americans novels for young adults (Razorbill/Penguin) and has written for many publications including Salon, Allure, New York magazine, Real Simple Travel, The Iowa Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Globe and Mail in Canada, and the Independent on Sunday magazine in the UK. She is a graduate of the Women’s Studies program at UC Santa Cruz and holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.

Lucy works in book publishing and can be found on Twitter @lucysilag.

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	Beautiful Americans (Beautiful Americans, #1) 3.48 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wanderlust (Beautiful Americans, #2) 3.63 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experienced (Beautiful Americans, #3) 3.70 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris, wir kommen (Beautiful Americans 1) (German Edition) 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kopfüber in die Liebe (Beautiful Americans 2) (German Edition) 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leben à la carte (Beautiful Americans 3) (German Edition) 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experienced: A Beautiful Americans Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 6: by Diana

Aug 04, 2010 09:54AM

i love your series lucy im a little dissapointed that experienced isnt coming out untill fall but i cant wait

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message 5: by Josh

Dec 15, 2008 07:19PM

hey, thanks for accepting my friends request :) Hope all is well and can't wait for your book to come out!

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message 4: by Ilyn

Dec 02, 2008 12:17AM

Hello Lucy,

How are you? Thank you for being my friend. Good fortune on Beautiful Americans.

Please visit these groups when you have a chance: “Happy & Brainy Group” and “To the Glory of Man”.

Have a wonderful week. Best regards.

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Hello Lucy, thank you for allowing me to become your friend. =)

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