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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

David Leavitt

David Leavitt Biography

  Nationality: American
Type: Novelist

Born: June 23, 1961
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