Jim Butcher (1971) American author
A Conversation With Jim Butcher, The SF Site, McCune, Alisa, 2004, 2008-02-04 http://www.sfsite.com/08b/jb182.htm,
“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people.”
— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
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