- Aoibheann Sweeney
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name = Aoibheann Sweeney
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birthdate =1969
birthplace =Massachusetts
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nationality = American
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citizenship = American
period = Current
genre = Novels, book reviews
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notableworks =Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking
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awards = 2007Lambda Literary Award
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portaldisp =Aoibheann Sweeney (born
1969 ) is an Americanauthor .She was raised in
Massachusetts and attendedHarvard University and theUniversity of Virginia ’s MFA Program, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow.Her first novel, "
Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking ", is about a girl who grows up alone with her father on an island inMaine and is sent to stay inNew York City with friends of her father's who open up her past, and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine. It was published byPenguin Press in 2007 and was an Editor’s Choice at the "New York Times Book Review " and the recipient of a 2007Lambda Literary Award .In a lengthy review in "
The Washington Post ", Ron Charles wrote about the way the book “taps into older, sometimes ancient stories...There’s real wisdom in these classic myths and there’s real talent in this sensitive novel.” [cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072601645.html |title= Island in the Storm (Washington Post book review)|accessdate=2008-08-04 |last=Charles|first=Ron |coauthors= |date= July 29, 2007 |work= |publisher=Washington Post] Sweeney has written for the "New York Times Book Review ", "The Washington Post Book World", and "The Village Voice Literary Supplement", and is currently the Executive Director of the Center for the Humanities at theCUNY Graduate Center . She lives inBrooklyn .References
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* "Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking" in [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Flook-t.html?ref=review "The New York Times Sunday Book Review"]
* "Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking" at [http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594201301,00.html the Penguin Press]Persondata
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DATE OF BIRTH=1969
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