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Claire Lombardo

Born: Oak Park, Illinois
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Connection to Illinois: Lombardo was born and raised in Oak Park.

Biography: Claire Lombardo earned her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel, THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List. Claire has worked as a social worker and most recently taught undergraduate fiction writing at the University of Iowa. She was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, and now lives in Philadelphia.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Claire++Lombardo


Selected Titles

THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD
ISBN: 0385544251 OCLC: 1052462126

Doubleday 2019

A multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--match wits, harbor grudges, and recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built--

 

 

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