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Ashley Preston Norton

Born: in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Preston was born in Chicago and attended Chicago Latin School.

Biography: Ashley is a graduate of Georgetown University and the New York University Creative Writing Program. She currently lives in New York with her husband and three children.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Ashley Preston Norton on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ashley+preston+norton

Selected Titles

  Cette la vie /
ISBN: 1424162246 OCLC: 182561803

PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Md. : ©2007.

The chocolate money /
ISBN: 0547840047 OCLC: 772099661

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Mass. : ©2012.

After being raised in 1980s Chicago by a promiscuous mother, Bettina Ballentyne, the daughter of a chocolate heiress struggles to walk the line between self-preservation and self-destruction at an East Coast prep school.

 

 

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