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Margot Livesey

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Bio

Margot Livesey is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals, and Homework. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Margot Livesey Books

The Road from Belhaven book cover

The Road from Belhaven

Margot Livesey
Address Unknown book cover

Address Unknown

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
As We Were Saying book cover

As We Were Saying

Wyatt Prunty
The Boy in the Field book cover

The Boy in the Field

Margot Livesey
The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing book cover

The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing

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Mercury book cover

Mercury

Margot Livesey
The Linwoods book cover

The Linwoods

Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Criminals book cover

Criminals

Margot Livesey
The Missing World book cover

The Missing World

Margot Livesey
The Flight of Gemma Hardy book cover

The Flight of Gemma Hardy

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The Mill on the Floss book cover

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot
The House on Fortune Street book cover

The House on Fortune Street

Margot Livesey
Banishing Verona book cover

Banishing Verona

Margot Livesey
Eva Moves the Furniture book cover

Eva Moves the Furniture

Margot Livesey
Homework book cover

Homework

Margot Livesey
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