Jim Keeble

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Jim Keeble is a novelist, Oxford graduate, travel-writer and screenwriter from Cambridge, England. He now lives in London with his wife.

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For his travel-writing, Keeble won the 1995 "Travel Writer of the Year" award at the Travelex Awards, and his book Independence Day – A voyage around America with a broken heart was one of the New York Times' top six travel books of the year 2000.

As literary influences, Keeble states Anne Tyler, Michael Ondaatje, John Irving, Nick Hornby and Charles M. Schulz.

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