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Margot Livesey

Author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

Includes the names: Margot Livesay, Margot Livesey, Margaret Livesey

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Margot Livesey is the award-winning author of a story collection, Learning by Heart, and the novels Homework, Criminals, and The Missing World. Born in Scotland, she currently lives and teaches in the Boston area. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Works by Margot Livesey
The Flight of Gemma Hardy 987 copies, 87 reviews
Eva Moves the Furniture 599 copies, 28 reviews
The House on Fortune Street 424 copies, 31 reviews
The Boy in the Field 259 copies, 19 reviews
Banishing Verona 238 copies, 6 reviews
The Missing World 233 copies, 10 reviews
Criminals 197 copies, 7 reviews
Mercury: A Novel 145 copies, 10 reviews
Homework 94 copies, 2 reviews
The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing 37 copies, 1 review
Learning by Heart: Short Stories (Penguin Short Fiction) 17 copies
Ploughshares (At Emerson College) (Fall 2002, Volume 28, Nos. 2 & 3) 3 copies
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The Mill on the Floss (Introduction, some editions) 8,141 copies, 114 reviews
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Introduction, some editions) 2,222 copies, 35 reviews
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books… (Contributor) 368 copies, 16 reviews
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane… (Contributor) 345 copies, 18 reviews
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (Contributor) 291 copies, 12 reviews
The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House (Contributor) 114 copies, 3 reviews
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their… (Contributor) 65 copies, 2 reviews
A Few Thousand Words About Love (Contributor) 21 copies
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Livesey, Margot
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Date of birth
1953
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female
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UK
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Scotland, UK
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Education
University of York (BA, English)
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professor (Writing)
novelist
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Amanda Urban (ICM)
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Boston University
Bowdoin College (writer-in-residence)
Brandeis University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cleveland State University
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