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David Ebershoff

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Los Angeles, CA, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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David Ebershoff is the author of four books, including The Danish Girl, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film, and the #1 bestseller The 19th Wife, which was adapted for television. In 2017 the New York Times named The Danish Girl one of the 25 books that have shaped LGBTQ literature in the past twenty years. David is Vice President and Executive Editor at Hogarth Books and Random House, where he edits a wide-range of prize-winning and bestselling authors of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

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	Сын повелителя сирот by Adam Johnson, Адам Джонсон, David Ebershoff (Goodreads Author) (Interview) 4.07 avg rating — 104,247 ratings — published 2012 — 74 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
	The 19th Wife 3.65 avg rating — 60,884 ratings — published 2008 — 52 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
	The Danish Girl 3.76 avg rating — 24,931 ratings — published 2000 — 4 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
	Pasadena 3.43 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2002 — 25 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
	Lit Riffs by Matthew Miele (Editor), Heidi Julavitz, Tanker Dane (Contributor) 3.32 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2004 — 13 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
	The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill by Judy Sternlight (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Judy Sternlight (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Donald Antrim 3.86 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	The Rose City: Stories 3.58 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2001 — 8 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
	Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition by Patty O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michelle Huneven (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Jervey Tervalon (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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
	Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction by David Bergman (Editor), Jim Grimsley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bruce Benderson (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1996 — 3 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
	The Grand Scheme 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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“Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.”
― David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife

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“Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.”
― David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

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“I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.”
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July BOTM~ Historical Fiction Theme 2nd Poll!!!

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

28 votes, 43.8%

The Sandcastle Girls

by Chris Bohjalian

14 votes, 21.9%

The 19th Wife

by David Ebershoff

8 votes, 12.5%

The Girl Who Came Home

by Hazel Gaynor

8 votes, 12.5%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

6 votes, 9.4%

64 total votes

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“A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water

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“One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're confronted with the quotidian selfishness and silence that, I'm given to understand, comprise most of a life. But we were just so new.”
― Jennifer Dubois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

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“But all that talk. All those confidences. He shuddered to think about it. At the time, though, he didn't know any better, and he was filled the gleeful lurching and teeth-chattering panic of early and undiagnosed love.”
― Jennifer Dubois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

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“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating a sandwich, instead of tearing at the injustice of it all or sitting quietly at the center of a grand and monstrous grief. The disaster of my life might be only the worst thing another person heard that afternoon; they might have forgotten by dinnertime; they might have been more heartbroken by watching certain movies.”
― Jennifer Dubois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

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