Kathryn Harrison

Author

1961-03-20

Books by Kathryn Harrison

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Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.
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We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.
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I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.
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For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
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A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
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