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Bo Caldwell (born 1955) is the author of the national bestseller The Distant Land of My Father (2002), and The City of Tranquil Light (2011). The former was the selection for Silicon Valley Reads 2008. [1] Her short fiction has been published in Ploughshares, Story, Epoch, and other literary journals. A former Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, she lives in Northern California with her husband, Ron Hansen, and her two children. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Silicon Valley Reads 2008
  2. ↑ Caldwell, Bo. "Macmillan Authors". US Macmillan. Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Caldwell, Bo. "Bo Caldwell's Books". Good Reads: About This Author. Good Reads. Retrieved 28 December 2014.


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