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Alex Abella


Born
Havana, eternal city of dreams and revolutions, Cuba
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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction, Romance


Papá was a poet. I am not.

But I am a writer--journalist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, news writer. I've tried practically everything that can be done with words upon a page, screen, or any medium, in all genres except poetry.

So far.

The first time I ever wrote anything for publication--or so I thought--I was eight years old. Like many boys who want to be writers, I wrote an adventure story, about knights in armor, if I recall correctly. I thought someone somewhere would publish it but, alas, I had no agent so...

But seriously...the next time I pursued my writing obsession was during high school in New York, when I was determined to break into The New Yorker. I sent the magazine a host of stories--none of which, mercifully, were publi ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 559 ratings · 107 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
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The Great American
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The Total Banana
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More Than A Woman
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