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Article: What writers read when love is in the air: In honor of Valentine's Day, we asked a bouquet of novelists to tell us about the book they consider most romantic.(Features)(Books)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 14, 2002
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Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" and the recently released "Fair Warning."
The book I recommend is "Many Things Have Happened Since He Died," by Elizabeth Dewberry, though it decidedly cuts against the grain for Valentine's Day. The marriage in it is dreadful and things end badly, but I fell in love with the author reading this book (while, unbeknownst to me, she was falling in love with me reading my novel "They Whisper"). When we met for the first time six months later, I asked her to marry me within 24 hours. She accepted.
Elinor Lipman is the author of many comic novels, most ...