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Elizabeth Letts

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Houston, Texas, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Narrative Non Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Never got over Black Beauty

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ELIZABETH LETTS is an award winning and bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction. The Perfect Horse was the winner of the 2017 PEN USA Award for Research Non-fiction and a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. The Eighty-Dollar Champion was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Daniel P Lenehan Award for Media Excellence from the United States Equestrian Foundation. She is also the author of two novels, Quality of Care and Family Planning, and an award-winning children's book, The Butter Man. She lives in Southern California and Northern Michigan. ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 73,540 ratings · 10,901 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Finding Dorothy 4.17 avg rating — 34,101 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America 4.21 avg rating — 16,002 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation 4.23 avg rating — 14,574 ratings — published 2011 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis 4.08 avg rating — 7,847 ratings — published 2016 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Horse: The Daring Rescue of Horses Kidnapped During World War II 3.86 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quality of Care 3.57 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Butter Man by Elizabeth Letts (Goodreads Author), Ali Alalou, Julie Klear Essakalli (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eighty-Dollar Champion: A Man, a Horse, and an Unstoppable Dream 4.27 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Planning 3.37 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Blue-Ribbon Horse: The True Story of the Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts (Goodreads Author), Kayla Harren (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #1-2)

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“Oh, Kansas isn’t the state of Kansas,” Maud said. “Kansas is just the place you’re stuck in, wherever that might be.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

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“Magic isn't things materializing out of nowhere, Magic is when a lot of people all believe in the same thing at the same time, and somehow we all escape ourselves a little bit and we meet up somewhere, and just for a moment, we taste the sublime”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

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“The fight for all women has got to begin with the women closest to you.”
― Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy

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December BoTM Nominations ~ SNOW on Cover/In Title ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 Books Move Onto Final Poll

Rock Paper Scissors

by Alice Feeney

10 votes, 29.4%

The Secret of Snow

by Viola Shipman

6 votes, 17.6%

The Snow Child

by Eowyn Ivey

6 votes, 17.6%

Girls Made of Snow and Glass

by Melissa Bashardoust

3 votes, 8.8%

Moon of the Crusted Snow

by Waubgeshig Rice

3 votes, 8.8%

Snow

by John Banville

2 votes, 5.9%

Snowblind

by Ragnar Jónasson

1 vote, 2.9%

One More for Christmas

by Sarah Morgan

1 vote, 2.9%

Shattered Snow

by Rachel Huffmire

1 vote, 2.9%

The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation

by Elizabeth Letts

1 vote, 2.9%

34 total votes

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