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Heidi Jon Schmidt

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HEIDI JON SCHMIDT is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and author of five books, THE HARBORMASTER'S DAUGHTER,THE HOUSE ON OYSTER CREEK, THE BRIDE OF CATASTROPHE, DARLING? and THE ROSE THIEVES

Her essays and stories have been published in The New York Times,The Atlantic, Grand Street, Yankee, The Boston Globe etc., and heard on National Public Radio. Her stories have been included in The O'Henry Awards, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Twenty under Thirty and others.

She is married to the writer RD Skillings, and has lived in Provincetown Massachusetts for 30 years.

The Washington Post Book World has said "It is impossible to disentangle the comic from the tragic in Schmidt's writing. She is incapable of cliche."

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Beach Plums

I tried to list my 'Influences' on Goodreads this morning... the software limited me to about 30 characters. Writers are influenced about once a minute! I don't think I've ever read a book or seen a painting...or for that matter had a random conversation at the hardware store...that didn't influence me. The story of any writer's --any person's-- influences, is the story of their life, a double-hel Read more of this blog post »

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	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 by Dave Eggers (Editor), Michael Cart (Series Editor), Sam Lipsyte (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 1,001 ratings — published 2002 — 7 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 House on Oyster Creek 3.26 avg rating — 642 ratings — published 2010 — 6 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 Harbormaster's Daughter 3.09 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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 Bride of Catastrophe 2.74 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2003 — 11 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
	Darling? 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2001 — 6 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
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“We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.”
― Heidi Jon Schmidt, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

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