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Julia Pierpont

Julia Pierpont is the author of the New York Times bestseller Among the Ten Thousand Things, winner of the Prix Fitzgerald in France. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the MFA program at New York University. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and Guernica. She lives and teaches in New York.
The Little Book of Feminist Saints
Among the Ten Thousand Things

Meet the Author: Julia Pierpont & Manjit Thapp (THE LITTLE BOOK OF FEMINIST SAINTS)

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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
Among the Ten Thousand Things

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Meet the Author: Julia Pierpont & Manjit Thapp (THE LITTLE BOOK OF FEMINIST SAINTS)

Julia Pierpont & Manjit Thapp (THE LITTLE BOOK OF FEMINIST SAINTS) | What I'm Readin

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