Alex Brunkhorst

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Alex Brunkhorst


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The United States
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Fiction


Alex Brunkhorst grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Childhood was spent pretty much like any other kid’s childhood. I loved playing tennis, swimming, and listening to music. And I was always a veracious reader. Nancy Drew mysteries were my early books of choice, and later I devoured everything from commercial fiction to the classics. I don’t know if it was all that reading, but I always had a super vivid imagination.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in Milwaukee and it was then that I met a teacher, Mr. Grandy, who first noticed my talent for writing. I did what any other high schooler would do though – I ignored his advice to pursue writing and instead studied economics at Georgetown University, determined to work on Wall Street. (I ...more

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“She wore a summer dress and it smelled of Hawaii- of the ocean, sun, teriburgers and plumeria. I squeezed her dress in my hand, wanting to be back there.”
― Alex Brunkhorst, The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine
tags: dress, hawaii, reminiscent, scent-of-a-woman
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“You should have told me earlier. It was an expensive lesson,” I said. “It drained my emotional bank account.”
― Alex Brunkhorst, The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine
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“Assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups.”
― Alex Brunkhorst, The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine
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