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Maxine Swann


Born
in Pennsylvania, The United States
February 11, 1969

Genre
Fiction


Maxine Swann (born February 11, 1969) is an American fiction author.
Swann grew up on a farm in southern Pennsylvania, before attending Phillips Academy and then Columbia College, where she studied under Mary Gordon.
She pursued her graduate studies at the Sorbonne, Université de Paris VII, earning her master's degree in 1997 with a thesis on the style of Marcel Proust. She now lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She has won the O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize.
She is a Founding Editor of the bilingual literary magazine "The Buenos Aires Review."
She has taught creative writing at Barnard College and also works as a private writing coach. ...more

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Average rating: 2.84 · 1,583 ratings · 311 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors
Flower Children
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Serious Girls
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The Foreigners
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Flower Children: Short Story
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“And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope.”
― Maxine Swann, Flower Children
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“‎"To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.”
― Maxine Swann, The Foreigners
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“Why replicate this world that has gone? Because it was so perfect? But it was not. But it was. Perfect because it was the world before the world changed.”
― Maxine Swann, Flower Children
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