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Pamela Duncan


Born
Asheville, The United States
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Novelist Pamela Duncan was born in Asheville and grew up in Black Mountain, Swannanoa, and Shelby, North Carolina. She holds a B.A. in journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina and teaches creative writing at Western Carolina University.

Her first novel, Moon Women, was a Southeastern Booksellers Association (now Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Award Finalist, and her second novel, Plant Life, won the 2003 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. She is the recipient of the 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her
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Average rating: 3.77 · 2,026 ratings · 228 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Moon Women

3.77 avg rating — 1,335 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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Plant Life: A Novel

3.75 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions
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The Big Beautiful

3.83 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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“The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn’t want to go out of doors no more. And since they was all cooped up inside their cold houses, they needed something to do, so some other feller invented television. Now, you tell me one good thing ever come from them two contraptions.” He paused. “You can’t, can you?”
Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

“That’s what I want, she thought, with the fiercest feeling of wanting she’d ever had in her life. She wanted that look her granny had, that look that told the world here I am, I’m somebody, and here is my life. I been young and old and in between, I loved a man, raised my children, worked, laughed, cried, and, see, even after all that, here I still am. “I’ll be”
Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

“Τhat’s when I found faith, when my young’uns growed up and I had to let them go.”
Pamela Duncan, Moon Women

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