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Marie Arana | |
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.jpg) Marie Arana at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival | |
| Born | Marie Arana Campbell Lima, Peru |
| Occupation | Author (fiction and nonfiction), Critic |
| Education | Northwestern University (BA) University of Hong Kong (MA) |
| Genre | American literature |
| Notable works | American Chica, Cellophane, Lima Nights, The Writing Life, Bolívar: American Liberator, Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority |
| Notable awards | American Chica—National Book Award Finalist 2001; PEN Memoir Award 2002
Cellophane: A Novel— John Sargent Award 2006 Bolívar: American Liberator — Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography 2014 Silver, Sword, and Stone — American Library Association Top Book of the Year 2019 LatinoLand — New Yorker, Top Twelve 2024, Essential Reading |
| Spouse | Wendell B. Ward, Jr. (1972–1998)
Jonathan Yardley (1999–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
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Marie Arana (born Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian author, editor, journalist, critic, and the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress.[1]
- ^ "Marie Arana". Library of Congress. Retrieved December 29, 2012.