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Doris Grumbach


Born
in New York City, NY, The United States
July 12, 1918


Doris Grumbach is an American novelist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. She taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, and was literary editor of the The New Republic for several years. Since 1985, she has had a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine, that she operates with her partner, Sybil Pike.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 11,088 ratings · 1,436 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors
Fifty Days of Solitude
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The Ladies
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Life in a Day
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Coming into the End Zone: A...
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Extra Innings: A Memoir
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The Pleasure of Their Company
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The Presence of Absence: On...
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The Book of Knowledge: A Novel
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“The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.”
― Doris Grumbach, Fifty Days of Solitude
tags: identity, solitude
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