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Ethan Canin


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Ann Arbor, Michigan, The United States
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Highly regarded as both a novelist and a short story writer, Ethan Canin has ranged in his career from the "breathtaking" short stories of Emperor of the Air to the "stunning" novellas of The Palace Thief, from the "wise and beautiful" short novel Carry Me Across the Water to the "epic" America America. His short stories, which have been the basis for four Hollywood movies, have appeared in a wide range of magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Paris Review, and Granta, and have been selected for many prize anthologies.

The son of a musician and a public-school art teacher, he spent his childhood in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California before attending Stanford University, the University of Iowa Writers' Worksh ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 20,698 ratings · 2,722 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors
A Doubter's Almanac
3.68 avg rating — 4,735 ratings — published 2016 — 23 editions
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America America
3.67 avg rating — 3,647 ratings — published 2008 — 36 editions
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The Palace Thief
3.83 avg rating — 2,261 ratings — published 1994 — 31 editions
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Emperor of the Air: Stories
4.04 avg rating — 1,795 ratings — published 1988 — 29 editions
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For Kings and Planets
3.75 avg rating — 1,192 ratings — published 1998 — 22 editions
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Carry Me Across the Water
3.81 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 2001 — 23 editions
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Blue River
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American Beauty. Stories
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The Year of Getting to Know Us
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“One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead;”
― Ethan Canin, America America
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“Dawkins once said that he opposed religion mainly because it taught us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
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“I've solved a problem that was thought to be unsolvable. . . . And I learned that only a small part of it is talent. The rest is determination. . . . The will is everything.”
― Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
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