Leah Price

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ISBN 978-0521782081
  • Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture with Pamela Thurschwell (Routledge, 2005) ISBN   978-1138378827
  • Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Yale University Press, 2011) ISBN   978-0300170924
  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton University Press, 2012) ISBN   978-0691114170
  • What We Talk About When We Talks About Books: The History and Future of Reading (Basic Books, 2019) ISBN   978-0465042685
  • Personal life

    Price is married to Rutgers bioethicist Nir M. Eyal, and they have one daughter and live in Princeton, New Jersey.

    Price is since 2012 a member of Giving What We Can, a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities. [12]

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    Leah Price
    Born
    Leah Price

    October 6, 1970
    Spouse Nir Eyal (bioethicist)
    Children1
    Academic background
    Alma mater Yale University; Girton College, Cambridge University