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David Ebershoff

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Born

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 — 105,197 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The 19th Wife 3.65 avg rating — 61,108 ratings — published 2008 — 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 Danish Girl 3.76 avg rating — 25,126 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 — 917 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 3.84 avg rating — 145 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) 3.97 avg rating — 33 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
	The Danish Girl 3.83 avg rating — 6 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
	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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David Ebershoff liked Sydney's review of Waiting on a Friend: "Thanks to NetGalley, Hogarth, and Random House for the eARC; all opinions are my own! I liked this book so much! It took me a little bit to get used to the writing/narrative style, but I'm glad I stuck with it because what a profound experience! I lov" Read more of this review »
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David Ebershoff and 5 other people liked August Thompson's review of Waiting on a Friend: "Bighearted, incisive, madcap, with a voice I'll never forget. I loved it. "
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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.”
― david ebershoff

tags: love

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Voting for September 2017 monthly read!

Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay

9 votes, 28.1%

A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

4 votes, 12.5%

An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson

4 votes, 12.5%

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

4 votes, 12.5%

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

3 votes, 9.4%

Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman

2 votes, 6.3%

Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett

2 votes, 6.3%

The Genius by Jesse Kellerman

2 votes, 6.3%

A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley

2 votes, 6.3%

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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

tags: illness

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