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Aaron Shulman is the author of the forthcoming non-fiction historical narrative The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War (Ecco/HarperCollins, March 2019). After growing up in Michigan, Aaron attended Johns Hopkins as an undergrad and then the University of Montana, where he received his MFA in creative writing. A former Fulbright scholar, his work has appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Hazlitt, El País, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among many other places. He is the co-owner of Splash Literary, a book-coaching agency that works with authors, agents, and publishers to make sure important sto ...more

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