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- ↑ "Prize Winners". Bellevue Literary Review (10). Retrieved June 17, 2024.
- ↑ Caroline Leavitt: An Interview Archived October 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , BiblioBuffet
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- ↑ Galant, Debra. "In Person; The Parent Not Chosen", The New York Times , April 25, 2004. Accessed February 6, 2013. "Ms. Leavitt and her husband, Jeff Tamarkin, who edits Global Rhythm, a world music magazine, did not get nearly as far as the adoptive parents in Girls in Trouble.... Ms. Leavitt -- who grew up in Waltham, Mass., and moved to Hoboken in 1992 -- is no stranger to tragedy."
- ↑ Kuczynski, Alex (November 4, 2016). "Caroline Leavitt's New Novel Takes a Dark Departure". The New York Times . Retrieved November 6, 2021.
