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| Author | Margo Jefferson |
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| Publisher | Pantheon Books |
Publication date | 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781524748173 |
Constructing a Nervous System is a 2022 memoir by Margo Jefferson. It won the 2023 Rathbone Folio Prize. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The book was a finalist for the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction in 2023. [6] and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. [7]
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