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- ↑ Ginet's homepage [ permanent dead link ] at Cornell.
- ↑ Ginet's profile Archived May 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at Cornell.
- ↑ Nancy Dolittle (May 12, 2010). "A 'retired' McConnell-Ginet as busy as ever with Potter prose, prison program, local theater ... and eggplant". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell University. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
