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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Casey Cep is a writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After graduating from Harvard College with a degree in English, she earned an M.Phil. in theology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic, among many other publications. Furious Hours is her first book.
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